C# vs. Pine Script vs. PureScript vs. ScraperAPI Comparison Chart

Pine Script® is TradingView’s programming language. It allows traders to create their own trading tools and run them on our servers. We designed Pine Script® as a lightweight, yet powerful, language for developing indicators and strategies that you can then backtest. Most of TradingView’s built-in indicators are written in Pine Script®, and our thriving community of Pine Script® programmers has published more than 100,000 community scripts. It’s our explicit goal to keep Pine Script® accessible and easy to understand for the broadest possible audience. Pine Script® is cloud-based and therefore different from client-side programming languages. While we likely won’t develop Pine Script® into a full-fledged language, we do constantly improve it and are always happy to consider requests for new features. Because each script uses computational resources in the cloud, we must impose limits in order to share these resources fairly among our users.

ScraperAPI is a powerful web scraping API that enables users to collect data from any public website without worrying about proxies, browsers, or CAPTCHA challenges. It offers scalable and consistent data extraction solutions, including plug-and-play scraping, structured endpoints, and asynchronous request handling. The platform supports scraping popular sites like Amazon, Google, Walmart, and more, transforming raw web pages into clean, structured JSON or CSV data. Users can automate complex data pipelines without coding and benefit from global proxy coverage and geotargeting. ScraperAPI saves development time by managing proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and browser rendering behind the scenes. Trusted by over 10,000 companies, it serves billions of requests monthly to help businesses gain competitive advantage through efficient data collection.