r/scrapingtheweb is a subreddit with 7k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses scraping, web scraping, data, proxy, and web, and they frequently recommend/review residential proxy.
A community for builders working on web scraping, automation, and data collection. Share projects, ask technical questions, and discuss best practices.
Popular Themes in r/scrapingtheweb
#1
Solution Requests
: "Best Oxylabs alternatives for residential proxies and web scraping?"
47 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Anyone can help me though learning Twitter(X) scraping technology?"
5 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Why is Home Depot blocking literally everything? Puppeteer, Selenium, Playwright, real browsers… all get “Oops!! Something went wrong.”"
4 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "Introducing Hotel Patrol Bot"
4 posts
#5
Ideas
: "Building a no-code way to scrape websites"
3 posts
#6
Money Talk
: "$1000 for someone who really knows their web-scraping stuff (for real)"
1 post
#7
Opportunities
: "🚀 Looking for a web scraper to join an AI + real-estate data project"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/scrapingtheweb
#1
Scraping
: "What happens when you make a browser that is identical to chrome but it's use is Scraping"
150 posts
#2
Web Scraping
: "Best Oxylabs alternatives for residential proxies and Web Scraping?"
41 posts
#3
Data
: "Scrap Data on Google Maps and get recommendations for nearby suburbs as well"
30 posts
#4
Proxy
: "[Best Proxy sites?] Oxylabs vs Bright data vs IPRoyal comparison. What should I try first?"
26 posts
#5
Web
: "I tested the most popular Website extraction tools so you don't have to. Here are the ones that actually work."
18 posts
#6
Proxies
: "Open-sourced a library for filtering Proxies"
16 posts
#7
Tool
: "What's one scraping Tool you couldn't live without in 2026?"
15 posts
#8
Api
: "Honest Brave Search Api review after 3 months of using it in production"
14 posts
#9
Browser
: "What happens when you make a Browser that is identical to chrome but it's use is scraping"
12 posts
#10
Python
: "Scraping Python"
11 posts
Products Discussed in r/scrapingtheweb
Residential Proxy
52 reviews
#1
SmartProxy
4.5★ from 34 reviews
#2
Bright Data
4.6★ from 5 reviews
#3
Oxylabs
4.7★ from 3 reviews
Flair Used in r/scrapingtheweb
#1
Help
: "How to perform web scrapping using Claude?"
15 posts
#2
Tools / Library
: "What happens when you make a browser that is identical to chrome but it's use is scraping"
9 posts
#3
Discussion
: "104K Github⭐️ for Firecrawl😳. Never used it. Am I missing something?"
9 posts
#4
Proxy / IP Issue
: "Need help with scraping technicalities"
4 posts
#5
Blocked / CAPTCHA
: "Spent way too long with CAPTCHAs on Google before I figured out the obvious solution"
2 posts
#6
Python
: "Scraping python"
2 posts
#7
Scrapy
: "Honest Brave Search API review after 3 months of using it in production"
1 post
#8
Node / JS
: "(beginner) need help in scraping paginated pages"
1 post
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Yearly
+6k members(721.2%)
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Last updated: June 22, 2026