Data Credits: A New Way to Measure Your Scraping Usage

Data Credits: A New Way to Measure Your Scraping Usage

We're excited to introduce a new, more intuitive way to track and manage your data scraping needs: Data Credits! This change will make it easier for you to understand and control your usage of ScrapeHero Cloud.

What's Changing?

We're moving from our old "pages crawled" system to a new "data credits" system. Here's what that means for you:

-  Old System: We counted the number of web pages our scrapers/APIs visited.
-  New System: We'll count the actual data records you receive.

Why Are We Making This Change?

We've listened to your feedback and made this change to:

1. Make it easier to understand how much data you're getting.
2. Give you more control over your usage.
3. Provide fairer pricing based on the value you receive.

How Does It Work?

With the new data credits system:

- You'll purchase data credits instead of page credits.
- Each scraper or API will have a "credit rate" - the number of credits needed per data record.
- When you run a scraper or call an API, it will use credits based on the amount of data you receive.
- You can try out all the products and services available within the ScrapeHero Cloud platform.
- Unified billing for all your data requirements.

For example:
- An Amazon product search might cost 1 credit per product data record gathered.
- A more complex Yelp business lookup might cost 15 credits per business data record gathered.

Benefits for You

This new system offers several advantages:

- Clearer Usage: You'll know exactly how many data records you're getting for your credits.
- Better Planning: It's easier to estimate how many credits you need for a project.
- Fairer Pricing: You pay for the data you receive, not just the pages visited.
- More Control: In the future, you'll be able to set credit limits for each scraper run.
- Credit Calculator: A credit calculator for each scraper and API that lets you calculate your data requirements.

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