Should I use Zyte or Scrapy for recurring crawls?

It depends on what you mean by “recurring crawls” and how much infrastructure you want to manage.

Use Scrapy if you want:

• Full control over the crawler logic
• To run crawls on your own servers / schedules
• Lower cost at scale if you can manage infra
• Flexibility for custom parsing, pipelines, storage, retries, etc.

Best for: teams that can operate and maintain their own crawling stack.

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Use Zyte if you want:

• A managed crawling/scraping platform
• Less ops work: scheduling, proxy management, anti-bot handling, retries
• Easier scaling for frequent or large recurring jobs
• Faster setup if your goal is data, not crawler engineering

Best for: teams that prefer “it just runs” and want to avoid maintaining infrastructure.

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Practical rule of thumb

• Choose Scrapy if your recurring crawls are stable, relatively simple, and you have engineering capacity.
• Choose Zyte if your recurring crawls are high-volume, likely to face blocking, or you want managed reliability.

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Common hybrid approach

Many teams use:

• Scrapy for the crawl logic
• Zyte for execution/managed infrastructure/proxy handling

That gives you the flexibility of Scrapy with the operational convenience of Zyte.

If you want, I can help you decide based on your specific case:

• how many sites/pages,
• how often the crawl repeats,
• whether the sites are dynamic or blocked,
• and whether you want to run it yourself or as a service.