ParseHub is a desktop-app scraper builder. Crawley Cloud runs entirely in the cloud with a REST API, CLI, scheduling and a free tier — nothing to install.
ParseHub is a desktop scraper builder (Windows, macOS, Linux) with cloud runs on its paid plans, and one of the older names in visual scraping. Crawley Cloud takes the same point-and-click idea and moves all of it into the browser, with an API, a CLI and scheduling from the first project.
If you have used ParseHub, the picker will feel familiar. What changes is everything around it: nothing to install, nothing that stops when your laptop closes, and a real API instead of a download button.
| Crawley Cloud | ParseHub | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs in the cloud (no desktop app) | Yes | Desktop app |
| REST API + CLI | Yes | API on paid tiers |
| Scheduling & alerts | Yes | Yes |
| JS rendering & proxies | Yes, built in | Limited |
| Free tier | Yes, no credit card | Limited free |
ParseHub's desktop app can be handy for interactive, one-off jobs on a site you are exploring, and its free plan is generous enough for a small personal project you run by hand. If you like working locally and never need automation, it does the job.
Anything recurring. Crawley scrapers run on our workers on a schedule, expose items over the REST API, and deliver results to S3, webhooks, Slack or email. Concurrency is a plan setting, not a limit of the machine the app is installed on, and JavaScript rendering plus rotating proxies are included.
Crawley also treats a scraper as something that has to keep working: drop-percentage alerts catch a half-broken run, field triggers watch for changed values, and de-duplication across runs keeps a canonical dataset rather than a pile of exports.
ParseHub's free plan caps pages per run and projects; the paid monthly tiers add cloud runs, more pages, scheduling and API access. See their pricing page for current limits.
Crawley Cloud: Free (no credit card) · Starter $9/mo · Pro $29/mo · Scale $79/mo · Business $199/mo — flat monthly plans sized by concurrency units and retention, every feature in every plan. API, scheduling and exports are on the free tier too.
Open the site in the Crawley picker and recreate the selections — the concepts (select, relative select, pagination) map one to one. Run once, compare counts with your last ParseHub run, then set the schedule and point your tooling at the API or an auto-export. There is no project file to import; a typical project is rebuilt in under half an hour.
No — it runs entirely in the browser and on our workers. There is an optional CLI for automation.
Yes. Scheduling, the API and exports are included on Free; paid plans add concurrency units, retention and team seats.
Yes, rendering and proxies are built in on every plan.
ParseHub for hands-on, local, one-off extraction. Crawley Cloud for scrapers that have to run on their own and feed other systems.
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