Every quarter we meet teams who spent six months building scrapers, only to abandon them when the target site changed, the lead developer left, or Cloudflare blocked their datacenter IPs.
Build makes sense when: scraping is your core product, you have dedicated infra engineers, targets are stable internal systems, and volume is predictable.
Buy (outsource to Scrapy Ninja or similar) makes sense when: scraping supports another business function (pricing, research, enrichment), targets change frequently, anti-bot is aggressive, you need results in days not months, and you want fixed monthly pricing.
Hidden DIY costs: developer time (often 0.5–1 FTE), proxy bills, on-call when scrapers break at 2am, opportunity cost of not shipping your actual product.
Our clients typically reach breakeven vs in-house at 3–6 months, then save 60–80% ongoing. The 48-hour setup promise exists because we've industrialized what takes internal teams weeks.
Use our quote form — describe sites and data fields. We respond within 6 hours with sample data and pricing. No complex software to install.
