Zyte Reviews & Product Details

I only use the Zyte Scrapy Cloud and for sure it's the best platform to host and run your Scrapy scrapers. There's no doubt about it. It is very easy to use, reliable and fast. The price is actually surprisingly good, given how expensive most cloud solutions have gotten in the last few years. Their support is not something I needed because in the past 6 years I didn't really need their customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their UI wasn't always as good as it is now. I felt pretty frustrated with the ease of use like 4-5 years ago, but now I have nothing to complain about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find Zyte very efficient for handling things like not having to manage my IPs, ban rates, and other elements. It's clear that we don't have to worry about these tasks because Zyte handles them efficiently for us. It allows my team to focus on building large, long-term features without the need to worry about how to scrape websites. The initial setup was pretty straightforward, and the use of Zyte for tasks like managing capture events and handling cloud play bans really stands out. Overall, I'd rate it pretty high since I gave it a nine for recommending to a friend or colleague. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The analytics can be improved, and also the request level debugging is something we don't really like. It takes a lot of time to just figure out why certain requests are failing. The debugger needs an improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a heavy user of Zyte, I appreciate the clean, intuitive UI and how easy it is to manage jobs. Pricing feels fair with strong ROI, and support is responsive and helpful. It simplifies complex scraping workflows without sacrificing reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a regular user of Zyte, the main drawbacks are cost at scale and limited control in edge cases. While it abstracts a lot, that can make debugging harder when something breaks. The UI, while clean, can feel a bit shallow for advanced workflows, and you’re somewhat locked into their ecosystem compared to rolling your own stack (e.g., Puppeteer + custom proxies). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the overview and dashboard the most. It's a very easy way to navigate all the scrapers. See which ones are running, start a new scraper, check the logs. Very nice.

We have our own CICD pipeline set up connected to our repo. So this automatically pushes to site and we also push jobs on a schedule. And it's just very easy to use once that was set up. Like we have zero issues with it.

Also the rotating proxy is super nice when we're scraping the same time for a large amount of times. Yeah, just a product without much friction on our site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scheduling jobs on a recurring basis is a very manual process. Ideally you want to upload a CSV with schedules in it or something. It was a lot of work to do that, especially when you have different parameters that you want to configure for hundreds of scrapers. So we just made our own AWS job that uses the API to scheduled these scrapers throuh Zyte. So it would be nice to have a way on the platform to upload schedules just in bulk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Smart Proxy Manager has been the most valuable part of Zyte for me. Rotating proxies and handling bans used to eat up a huge amount of engineering time, and Zyte basically removes that headache. I can point my scrapers at it and trust that requests are going to get through without constantly babysitting IP pools or tuning retry logic. Setup was straightforward, and the integration with Scrapy made onboarding fast. For scraping at any meaningful scale, having reliable proxy infrastructure that just works is a big deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing can get steep as request volume scales up, especially for sites that require more aggressive proxy rotation or premium IPs. It's worth it for the reliability, but it's something to keep an eye on if you're running large jobs. Documentation is generally solid but occasionally lags behind product changes, so I've had moments where I needed to dig into support or community threads to figure out the current best practice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We used Zyte because it's a reliable way to scrape large amounts of data without risking being blocked by websites' security systems. I really appreciate its 'do once and forget about it' approach; we set everything up once, and it continued to work for years without a hitch. The reliability is impressive - it always works, and for a scraping tool, that's very important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'd improve their alerts system - make it more customizable (add custom triggers) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been working with Zyte's team for the last few months, and their team is fantastic. I appreciate their development speed and quality, and they run a very robust platform, producing very satisfactory results. I love the ease of the initial setup with Zyte, as they took care of all the development, and we only needed to communicate what data we needed and set up the necessary processes on our end. I find it great that Zyte handles everything for us, allowing us not to worry about maintaining a platform ourselves. I also find having access to reliable scraping data from our main competitors incredibly useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm a bit concerned about the lack of a validation system in Zyte. Sometimes, about once a week, there's a feed that doesn't correctly retrieve all the requested URLs, and we might be missing 2-3 URLs out of around 130. Implementing a validation system to ensure data for all URLs would be beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.