The Web-Scraping Services Market Today — +5 Years and the Year-on-Year Growth Story
Web scraping is no longer a niche hobby for data scientists — it’s become a core capability for businesses that need fast, structured access to everything the public web and marketplaces publish: prices, product feeds, reviews, job listings, regulatory filings, social signals, and even signals used for training AI. Over the next five years that transition from “nice to have” to “mission critical” is what will drive sustained year-on-year (YoY) growth in web scraping services . Below I walk through where the market stands today, what the most credible forecasts say for the next 3–5 years, the drivers and headwinds, and how to think about YoY growth mathematically — with clear stats and an illustrative market chart. Snapshot: the market today (2024–2025) Estimates vary by methodology and scope, but the best-known industry trackers converge on the same direction: a market worth hundreds of millions to low billions USD today and growing at a mid-teens compound annual growth rate (...