Magpie vs ScrapingBee · Checked 17 Sep 2026

ScrapingBee or Magpie for marketplace data?

ScrapingBee runs the browsers and proxies so you can scrape almost any page, with extraction tools on top. Magpie is built only for marketplaces, with monthly sales data and live scraping.

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Two different tools, in two paragraphs.

Magpie

A data API for ecommerce marketplaces. The Data API serves monthly GMV, units sold, prices and market share across Shopee, Tokopedia, TikTok Shop, Lazada and Blibli. The Scraping API fetches live product pages, listings and search results, including Amazon in ten countries.

ScrapingBee

A web scraping API that runs headless browsers and rotates proxies. It adds CSS and AI extraction, markdown output, screenshots and dedicated APIs for sites such as Amazon and Google. It advertises a Shopee API for Shopee Indonesia products and works with AI coding tools through MCP, Skills and a CLI.

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The differences that matter.

MagpieScrapingBee
What you buyStructured marketplace data: monthly metrics plus on-demand scrapingPage fetching with rendering and proxies, extraction tools and some dedicated APIs
Southeast Asian marketplacesShopee, Tokopedia, TikTok Shop, Lazada and BlibliAdvertises a Shopee API for Shopee Indonesia products
Sales history and market shareMonthly GMV, units and share by SKU, brand, merchant and categoryNot offered
Other websitesMarketplaces only, plus Amazon in ten countriesAlmost any website
ExtractionFields already parsed per endpointCSS rules, AI extraction or markdown that you define per page
Pricing modelPrepaid credits, charged only for rows or items returned; no subscriptionMonthly plans with API credits; charged only for successful requests
Free startFree trial credits, and free exact cost estimates before any exportFree API credits to try, no card needed
AI agentsMCP connector on the same API keyMCP, Skills and CLI for AI coding tools

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Which one fits your work.

Choose Magpie if

  • You need Tokopedia, Lazada, TikTok Shop or Blibli as well as Shopee, or Shopee outside Indonesia.
  • You want monthly sales and market share, not just the current page.
  • You do not want to write or maintain extraction rules per marketplace.
  • You would rather prepay than commit to a monthly plan.

Choose ScrapingBee if

  • You scrape many kinds of websites and want one tool for all of them.
  • You want AI or CSS extraction that you control page by page.
  • You need screenshots or markdown for LLM work.
  • You want a steady monthly volume on a fixed plan.

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Questions people ask.

Does ScrapingBee support Shopee?

When we checked on 17 Sep 2026, ScrapingBee advertised a Shopee API for Shopee Indonesia products, and its general API accepts other URLs. Magpie has endpoints for Shopee in eight countries, plus Tokopedia, Lazada, Blibli and TikTok Shop.

Which Shopee countries does Magpie scrape?

Shopee product pages can be fetched for Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and Brazil.

Does Magpie return markdown or screenshots?

No. Magpie returns structured JSON fields for each endpoint, and Parquet or CSV files for Data API exports.

Is there a free trial?

Yes. New accounts get free trial credits, and single-page scraping endpoints run straight away without approval.

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