Pine Script vs. Python vs. ScrapingAnt vs. WebScraper.io 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.

ScrapingAnt is an enterprise‑grade web scraping API that delivers mission‑critical speed, reliability, and advanced scraping capabilities through a single, easy‑to‑integrate RESTful interface. It combines scalable headless Chrome page rendering with unlimited parallel requests, all powered by a global pool of over three million low‑latency rotating residential and datacenter proxies. Its proprietary algorithm automatically switches to the optimal proxy for each task, ensuring seamless JavaScript execution, custom cookie management, and robust CAPTCHA avoidance. Built on high‑performance AWS and Hetzner servers, ScrapingAnt boasts 99.99% uptime and an 85.5% anti‑scraping avoidance rate. Developers can use any programming language to harvest LLM‑ready web data, scrape Google SERP results, or collect dynamic content behind Cloudflare and other anti‑bot protections without worrying about rate limits or infrastructure maintenance.