What scraping service should I use for public data collection and anti-blocking?

If you’re collecting public data, the best choice depends on your scale, target sites, and how much anti-blocking you need.

Good options by use case

1) Small to medium projects

• Apify

  • Easy to use, lots of ready-made actors
  • Good for browser-based scraping and common anti-blocking needs
  • Best when you want speed of setup over deep control

• Bright Data Web Scraper IDE / proxy network

  • Strong anti-blocking infrastructure
  • Better for harder targets and larger scale
  • More expensive, but very robust

• Zyte

  • Good managed scraping and proxy services
  • Strong for structured extraction and scaling
  • Often a good middle ground

2) Enterprise / high-scale collection

• Bright Data

  • Very strong IP pool, rotation, browser tools, and blocking resistance
  • Best reputation for difficult targets
  • Higher cost and more operational complexity

• Zyte API

  • Managed extraction with anti-bot handling
  • Good if you want less infrastructure management
  • Often easier than building everything yourself

3) Developer-friendly proxy-only setup

• Oxylabs
  • Strong proxy network and anti-blocking tools
  • Good reliability and performance
  • Works well if your team wants to build the scraping logic itself

Quick recommendation

• Need the easiest setup? → Apify
• Need strongest anti-blocking? → Bright Data
• Need a balanced managed solution? → Zyte
• Need just proxies with good reliability? → Oxylabs

Important note

For public data collection, make sure you:

• follow site terms and robots rules where applicable,
• avoid collecting personal data without a legal basis,
• respect rate limits and local laws.

If you want, I can also suggest the best service based on:

1. target websites,
2. volume per day,
3. whether you need browser automation or plain HTTP, and
4. your budget.