Behind a login
Projects can sign in and collect what a member sees, which a shop-page reader is not built for.
A ParseHub alternative
that keeps your product data private.
ParseHub is a desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux that processes your projects on its own servers. Its free plan is real, 200 pages per run, but free projects are public and run data is kept for 14 days. Web Product Scraper takes a narrower job, a shop's products and their photos, and does it in your browser, with no account, private by default: only the optional AI tags send product text, when you ask. Here is how they differ, and when ParseHub is still the one to use.
Add to Chrome, it's free No account · private by default
Is there a free ParseHub alternative that runs in Chrome?
ParseHub has no Chrome extension; it is a desktop app whose runs are processed on ParseHub's servers. For shop pages, Web Product Scraper is a Chrome extension without an account or a paid plan, and the list it builds stays in your browser; only the optional AI tags send product text, when you ask. For pages behind a login, forms, maps, or scheduled jobs across many sites, ParseHub remains the stronger tool.
ParseHub and Web Product Scraper side by side
From ParseHub's own pricing, features and download pages, linked under Sources below; prices, limits and data retention re-checked on 4 November 2026.
| Web Product Scraper | ParseHub | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the work happens | In your Chrome tab | In ParseHub's desktop app, with runs processed on its servers |
| Account | None | A free sign-up, no credit card |
| Price | No paid plan exists | Free; Standard $189 and Professional $599 a month |
| Free version | All features, up to 500 listing pages a run | 200 pages per run, 5 public projects |
| Who can see your work | Only you, by default; the optional AI tags send product text, when you ask | Free projects are public: their design and run data may be shared with other users |
| How long data is kept | In your browser until you clear it; your downloads are yours | 14 days on the free and Standard plans, 30 days on Professional |
| Product photos | Downloaded as files, a folder per product | Saved to Dropbox or S3 on paid plans |
| Schedules and API | Repeat a page every day or week, in your Chrome while it is open; no API | Scheduling on paid plans; a REST API |
| What it can scrape | Shop category, search and product pages | Most websites, including logins, forms, dropdowns and maps |
Public projects on the free plan
ParseHub says it plainly on its pricing page: private projects cannot be browsed by other users, while public project designs and the data from their runs may be shared with other users. Every project on the free plan is public. For a supplier's product list with your own markup next to it, that is worth knowing before you start.
Web Product Scraper is private by default. The table is kept in your browser, the Excel, CSV and JSON files are made on your computer, and the photo ZIP downloads straight from the shop into your Downloads folder. Only the optional AI tags send product text, when you ask.
Speed on the free plan
ParseHub states the free plan's pace: 200 pages of data in about 40 minutes, faster on the paid plans, with extra runs queued once the speed limit is reached.
Web Product Scraper's pace is set by you and by the shop. You choose how many product pages open at once, from 1 to 10, with a pause between page loads; on Shopify stores a collection comes from the product feed in a handful of requests and is done in seconds.
When ParseHub is the right tool
Forms, dropdowns and maps
ParseHub clicks through search forms and menus and reads interactive maps.
Many sites, on a timetable
Scheduled runs on the paid plans, with the work done on ParseHub's servers.
Feeding another app
A REST API to start runs and fetch results from your own code.
Sources
ParseHub's own pages, where the facts above come from. Their pages win when they differ from this one.
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Frequently asked questions
Does ParseHub have a Chrome extension?
No. ParseHub is a desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux. Web Product Scraper is added from the Chrome Web Store and works inside Chrome, beside the shop you have open.
Who can see the products I scrape?
With Web Product Scraper, nobody: it has no account, and the list stays in your browser (only the optional AI tags send product text, to get suggestions). On ParseHub's free plan projects are public, and ParseHub says their designs and data may be shared with other users.
What happens to my data after 14 days?
On ParseHub's free and Standard plans, run data is kept for 14 days, so download it before then. In Web Product Scraper the list stays until you clear it, and your exports are ordinary files on your computer.
Can Web Product Scraper sign in to a site or run on a timetable?
It does not sign in: it reads public shop pages. It can repeat a page every day or week, in your own Chrome while it is open. For logged-in pages, or schedules that run on a server with your computer off, ParseHub's paid plans fit better.