I've never used GScraper, but I do use Scrapebox every day for all sorts of evil things.

I suggest you invest an hour or so on Youtube and see what each product can do.

I would stay away from Gscraper. I just don't know a lot of people who use it.

And most people who own scrapebox, including myself, love it.

It is truely great software worth every penny and does everything it says + more.

edit: Mike Anthony does makes a good point. People tend to run with what they know. What I would do if I was you is find reviews from people who own both. And maybe you can make a more informed decision that way.

Word on it is that its ton loads faster than scrapebox. I intend to add it to my tool set just as many other SEOs and marketers have. If its one or the other then scrapebox has more features but the thing is - will you be using them? I also like that it does some basic stuff in one step that takes a few in Scrapebox.

Its got very solid reviews but is not known that well here at Wf because its relatively new. I wouldn't make that make me afraid. There are some extremely good programs that never get mentioned here. People tend to run with what they know but there have been several cases where the established recommended program here hasn't been the best but just continued to get recommendations based on former rep (AMR and Bestspinner are examples - to me particularly AMR)

There happens to be a free version if you google it so its not like you have to go in blind making a decision. You can even pick up both if its in your means and you find the right coupon for SB

I dont want to be a pain here and i`m only asking but do you have a good idea of exactly what your going to do with this softwear ?

If you know exactly what your doing and you know all about SEO and penguins and Pandas then fair enough but if you dont this sort of tool `might` not be for you.

I bought Scrapbox afew years ago and i used it to death but to be honest i haven`t opened it in about 6 months as all the little jobs i used to use it for have been wiped out ie, mass blog comments, profile link indexing, and yes thats all the spammy side of scrapebox the other side is you can find golden gem pages to leave a comment on but i`ll tell you now learning to use scrapebox to find golden gems isn`t easy (it wasn`t for me anyway) its a bit of a learning curve and it takes ages to find a great link and after all that the links get deleted.

My advice jack it off and speak to the warrior on here Mike Anthony about his course on building a net work of your own PR blogs because its soooo easy soooo effective and saves sooo much time and money .... Scrapebox for pros yeah great for everyone else i`m not so sure

I use both of them, since both of them are best complementing each other. Gscraper is way too fast and can handle more than 350-400 threads on a good system with good internet connection, you need to invest on proxies for its efficient working. I have used it with 35-40% success rate while it finished posting backlinks on 5500 AA sites and it just did that in 15 minutes. On the other hand, Scrapebox is updated regularly and had lots of add-ons. Scrapebox is one of the best tools for harvesting links, but I have found from my personal experience that posting links through Gsraper is the easiest and can be done with just a few clicks.
So, I recommend that if budget is not the conern for you than you can go for both. And it really would be a great investment, isn't it?

I still haven't purchased SB yet. I need to go watch videos and understand proxies. Till this day it doesn't make sense to me lol.

A lot of people uses scrapebox to find relevant blogs and them they manually comment on them. Not everyone intend to blast with scrapebox. It can be used in white hat way. Depends on the user.

Wow
A lot of opinions from heads who really don't know much about either.
Here's the story.

I own both software.

Scrapebox has one or two features that Gscraper does not,
Gscraper is streets ahead of Scrapebox in every single similar feature they share. And when I say streets, I really mean a Universe ahead of it.

Pro's of GScraper

At least 100 times faster in scraping than Scrapebox (10 times faster than Hrefer)

At least 100 times faster in posting than Scrapebox (10 times faster than Xrumer)

At least 100 times more stable with error handling than Scrapebox. I've loaded a 270 million url file into it without it sweating, Scrapebox is what? 1 mil url max, if it doesn't choke and die first.
It has been coded using TOT (Thread on Thread), meaning that if your scrape or post gets stuck, another thread comes behind it to close the thread and retry with a fresh proxy. Scrapebox threading just chokes killing your CPU and bandwidth.

Posts to "Any" anonymous posting platform out of the box. Scrapebox posts to what 2?.

The only features that it does not have that Scrapebox does. Are features that 99.9% of people would never use.

Problems with GScraper

Your computer will be not enough power for it. It really needs a good 16G Dedi to exploit it's power. I have had it on a 32G Hexcore scraping at 150k links per minute (Thats right 150k per minute)

The proxy server add-on has a monthly fee. But considering they have 56 dedicated servers running 24/7 scraping worldwide sources. That's a fair trade

The Dev's are Chinese, so can be a little difficult sometimes when it comes to communication. I have worked with them before with help of a translator and new features and tweaks I suggested where implemented within a couple of weeks.

But honestly, it is really an insult to GScraper to compare it to Scrapebox.

Scrapebox is a toy for kids, GScraper is for the grown ups

I just had a quick check, so to add,
GScraper has at least 10 "useful" features that Scrapebox Does not.

Filter Duplicates urls while scraping
Scrape url Titles while scraping
Check footprints for Index counts before scraping
Check OBL while scraping
No need to ever stop to refresh proxies while scraping/posting
Saves scraping to txt file while scraping to save memory
Verifies backlinks after posting while posting
Splits Do-Follow and No-Follow verified links into seperate txt files while posting
Spiders domains for all urls within domain while scraping
Follows OBL of urls while scraping
15000 built in keywords out of the box

This list goes on and on and on.....

ScrapeBox works great, you do NOT need any other related tool (of course I didn't use GScraper, but I am using SB to get some links and post comments MANUALLY), so I think it's enough and works good!

Well for sure you should use Scrapebox, simply becouse everyone knows about it, and everyone talks good about it.

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If you are looking for the harvesting your own links than GScraper WON the award but other features like commenting, pinging, checking rank, backlinks etc than Scrapebox already got the OSCAR Award.

Scrapebox!!

just hearing of G scraper now though i have scrapbox

for scraping i love gscrape. I use it from 1st version till now. i can run 1000 Thread on a 4 core vps,4Gb Ram along with other seo tools

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I'm finding myself where I'm wanting to do some scraping but know very little about it.

I'm thinking about buying a scraper. I probably should have bought one back when I first started into internet marketing...

So does the owner of Gscraper still support their product? Mike Anthony did you ever buy and test it?

Or should I just buy Scrape Box and start learning the ins and outs of it instead?

Any updates to this thread would be appreciated.

For anyone who said GScraper is a weaker version of scrapebox I can attest that it is WAAAAAY FASTER. I mean there's no comparison. I don't even use scrapebox for scraping anymore because GScraper just runs circles around it. It makes Scrapebox look like Smart Car, where GScraper is a Monster Truck.

With that being said there's a few caveats. If you go with GScraper you really need to sign up for there proxy service, so that's going to cost you about $48 dollars a month. Unless you have your own proxy scraping software, but the proxy service with GScraper is literally just set and forget you never have to worry about Google testing etc... If you're just going to use your own private proxies and nothing else then Scrapebox is a better choice.

Also GScraper lacks many features and Add-Ons that Scrapebox has. The only place it's superior is in scraping and PR checking. Scrapebox is far more versatile and has many more uses.

I actually use both every day. To give you an idea how fast GScraper is I'll run it on my middle-of-the-line VPS at 1500 threads and easily scrape 20,000 URLs per minute. Sometimes when all is said and done the scrape lists you get from it are multiple gigabytes. The list parsing capabilities are next to none. I think Scrapebox tops off at 1 million, with GScraper I can parse lists, dedupe, PR check, etc... lists of a billion URLs or more.

I own both. Another vote for Gscraper here.

For those of you that own or know the ins and outs of both tools.

Which in your opinion would have the least of a learning curve associated with it?

It all depends on what your goals are and you are trying to achieve.

I personally believe that Scrapebox should be the starting point given it's low price point. It can teach you what's going on and how to use Gscraper more robustly when you get to that point.

Buy scrapebox and make the $$ from it to buy Gscraper as they are both extremely powerful and effective tools.