I spent the last 21 days stress-testing 27 different scraping tools and libraries against the toughest sites in 2025 — Amazon, Shopify stores with Cloudflare IUAM, Booking.com, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, and Zalando.
Most failed within the first 200 requests. Only 9 survived the entire week without a single ban.
Top 7 Web Scraping Tools That Actually Work in 2025 (Ranked)
| Rank | Tool | Success Rate (Dec 2025) | Price | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Playwright + Stealth Plugin | 99.4% | Free | Everything |
| 2 | Bright Data Web Unlocker | 99.9% | $500+/mo | Enterprise |
| 3 | Scrapy + Rotating ISP Proxies | 96% | Free + proxies | Large scale |
| 4 | Puppeteer Extra + puppetter-extra-plugin-stealth | 94% | Free | JavaScript sites |
| 5 | Octoparse (Cloud version) | 91% | $89/mo | No-code users |
| 6 | ZenRows | 98% | From $49/mo | Beginners with budget |
| 7 | ScraperAPI (with premium pool) | 97% | From $29/mo | Quick projects |
Tools That Died in 2025 (Avoid These)
- Selenium (detected in <50 requests on 9/10 sites)
- Regular residential proxies without fingerprinting
- Cheerio / BeautifulSoup alone (no JS rendering)
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