WebHarvy Alternatives for Mac, Cloud and Code Scraping

WebHarvy is a point-and-click web scraper for Windows. You load a page in its built-in browser, click the fields you want, and it finds the matching items and follows pagination, infinite scroll and "load more" buttons. It is still sold and updated: version 8 added an MCP server for Claude, Codex and LM Studio and LLM-based extraction. The WebHarvy price list shows $99 one-time for a single user, $169 for two and $699 for a site licence, each with one year of updates and support.

People look elsewhere for four reasons: they use a Mac or Linux, they want scrapes to run in the cloud while the laptop is off, they need an API, or they would rather write code. The seven picks below cover each case. If you want to copy a whole site for offline reading rather than pull fields into a spreadsheet, see our HTTrack alternatives.

Prices below are as of November 8, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.

Quick comparison

Octoparse

Octoparse feels the most like WebHarvy: a desktop app where you click elements and it builds the extraction workflow for you. The difference is where it runs. Paid plans add cloud processes, so a job can run on Octoparse's servers on a schedule. The Octoparse download page offers Windows 10 (64-bit) and Mac builds, and lists version 10.2.1 from August 31, 2026.

The free plan is real but small: 10 tasks, one device, two concurrent local runs and up to 50,000 exported rows a month. Standard raises that to 100 tasks and three cloud processes, and Professional to 250 tasks and 20.

Best for: WebHarvy users on a Mac, or anyone who wants scheduled runs in the cloud.

Pricing:

• Free: 10 tasks, 1 device, 50,000 rows a month
• Standard: from $69 a month billed yearly, 100 tasks, 3 cloud processes
• Professional: from $249 a month billed yearly, 250 tasks, 20 cloud processes
• Yearly billing saves 16%; Enterprise price on request

Watch out for:

• It is a subscription, so two years of Standard costs well over ten WebHarvy licences.

Official site: Octoparse.

ParseHub

ParseHub is a visual scraper with desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux, the only point-and-click pick here with a Linux build. It renders pages in a full browser, which handles JavaScript-heavy sites, and paid plans add cloud scheduling, an API and IP rotation.

A SyncGTM review updated September 30, 2026 lists the free plan at 200 pages per run, five public projects and a 40-minute run limit. Standard costs $189 a month for 10,000 pages per run, and Professional $599 a month with no limit on pages per run.

Best for: Linux users and anyone who needs a visual tool for JavaScript-rendered pages.

Pricing:

• Free: 200 pages per run, 5 public projects
• Standard: $189 a month, 10,000 pages per run
• Professional: $599 a month, unlimited pages per run
• Annual discounts available; Enterprise price on request

Watch out for:

• Free projects are public, and the same review calls nested templates and logins a steep learning curve.

Official site: ParseHub.

Web Scraper

Web Scraper is a free browser extension. You build a "sitemap" of selectors in the browser's developer tools, then run it on the page you are viewing, with export to CSV. For one-off jobs it replaces WebHarvy at no cost and works on any desktop that runs Chrome.

For schedules and larger jobs there is Web Scraper Cloud. The Web Scraper pricing page lists Project at $50 a month for 5,000 URL credits and two concurrent scrapers, Professional at $100 for 20,000, and Scale from $200, all billed yearly with a 7-day trial.

Best for: Occasional scraping jobs on any operating system with nothing to install but an extension.

Pricing:

• Browser extension: free
• Cloud Project: $50 a month billed yearly, 5,000 URL credits
• Cloud Professional: $100 a month billed yearly, 20,000 URL credits
• Cloud Scale: from $200 a month billed yearly

Watch out for:

• The extension runs inside your own browser session, so long jobs tie up the browser and stop if you close it.

Official site: Web Scraper.

Browse AI

Browse AI trains "robots" by recording what you click on a page, then runs them in the cloud and can re-check pages for changes. Robots are unlimited on every plan; you pay in credits, where one credit covers 10 extracted rows or one screenshot.

The free plan gives 50 credits a month across two websites. Personal costs $48 a month on monthly billing for 2,000 credits, and Professional $87 a month, with lower rates when you pay yearly.

Best for: Non-technical teams that want to watch prices or listings and get alerts.

Pricing:

• Free: 50 credits a month, 2 websites
• Personal: $48 a month on monthly billing, 2,000 credits a month
• Professional: $87 a month on monthly billing
• Premium: from $500 a month, billed yearly

Watch out for:

• The Browse AI pricing FAQ says premium sites cost 2 to 10 credits per run, so a free plan can be used up in a handful of runs.

Official site: Browse AI.

Apify

Apify is a cloud platform where scrapers, called Actors, run on Apify's servers. Instead of building a Google Maps or Amazon scraper yourself, you can start a ready-made one from the Apify Store and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it from your own code.

Every plan is prepaid usage plus pay as you go. The free plan includes $5 of usage a month, Starter includes $19, and Scale includes $199 with cheaper compute units.

Best for: Teams that want ready-made scrapers for big sites and an API without running servers.

Pricing:

• Free: $5 of usage a month, compute unit $0.20
• Starter: $19 a month plus usage
• Scale: $199 a month plus usage, compute unit $0.16
• Business: $999 a month; yearly billing saves 10%

Watch out for:

• Prepaid usage does not roll over, and on the free plan access stops when the $5 runs out, per the Apify pricing page.

Official site: Apify.

Firecrawl

Firecrawl targets a newer job: feeding web pages to AI models. You send a URL to its API and get clean Markdown or structured JSON back, or crawl a whole site in one call. The core is open source under AGPL-3.0, so you can self-host it, while the cloud version adds features.

The Firecrawl pricing page counts one credit per page on a basic scrape, plus four more credits for JSON output. The free plan includes 1,000 credits a month, and Hobby costs $19 a month for 5,000.

Best for: Developers building AI agents or search features that need page content as Markdown.

Pricing:

• Free: 1,000 credits a month
• Hobby: $19 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly, 5,000 credits
• Standard: $99 a month, or $83 billed yearly, 100,000 credits
• Growth: $399 a month; self-hosting free under AGPL-3.0

Watch out for:

• Pages that return errors such as 403 or 404 still cost a credit, and there is no point-and-click interface.

Official site: Firecrawl.

Scrapy

Scrapy is the long-standing open source Python framework for crawling and scraping. You write a spider that requests pages, parses them with CSS or XPath selectors, and passes items through pipelines to a file or database. It is free under BSD-3-Clause and runs anywhere Python 3.11 or later runs.

Version 2.20.0 was published on PyPI on November 6, 2026. You trade WebHarvy's clicking for code, and in return you get unlimited scale, version control and no licence fees.

Best for: Developers who want a free, scriptable scraper they can run on their own servers.

Pricing:

• Free and open source (BSD-3-Clause)
• You pay only for your own servers and proxies

Watch out for:

• Scrapy does not run JavaScript on its own; the Scrapy docs on dynamic content recommend scrapy-playwright for pages that need a browser.

Official site: Scrapy.

How to choose

When to stay with WebHarvy

Stay with WebHarvy if you work on Windows and want to pay once instead of every month. The $99 licence keeps working after the first year, and version 8 brings MCP and LLM extraction into the same one-time price. You only pay again if you want versions released after your first year.

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