# Web scraping and data extraction

> Web scraping and data extraction at ellul.ai: £149 per website a month, a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts, never charged by the hour. A business tracking prices, listings or stock on other sites.

- Price: £149 per website a month (per-item)
- Time: Monthly, rolling
- Page: https://ellul.ai/services/web-scraping

## What is included
- A scraper built for one website you name
- Data delivered to a sheet, CSV or your database
- Runs daily or weekly, fixed when the site changes
- Public data only, within the site's own terms

## What other providers charge
Other providers publish a median of £149.25 across 3 comparable prices (middle half £111.75 to £168). Every price with its source: https://ellul.ai/services/web-scraping/readings.json

## How many people are asking for it
430 posts on Reddit asked to hire someone for web scraping and data extraction between November 2025 and November 2026, 148 of them in the last 90 days, most on r/slavelabour, r/forhire, r/freelance_forhire.

## Paid separately, at cost
- Any proxy service, billed to your account at cost
- Any database or storage you want the data kept in

## What the buyer supplies
- The website and the exact data fields you want
- Where the data should go: a sheet, CSV or your database
- How often it should run and what the data is for

## What the price does not cover
- Public pages only: no logging in and no getting past blocks or CAPTCHAs
- No personal data for marketing or cold-email lists
- One website per monthly price; a site whose terms forbid it is declined

## Rules that apply
- Under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (section 1) it is an offence to cause a computer to perform a function intending to secure access to a program or data, knowing that access is unauthorised. Source: [Computer Misuse Act 1990, section 1](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/1)
- Under the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 (regulation 16), extracting or re-utilising all or a substantial part of a database without the owner's consent infringes database right, and repeated systematic extraction of small parts can count. Source: [The Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997, regulation 16](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3032/regulation/16)

Get a written fixed quote: https://ellul.ai/services/web-scraping#quote