r/scrapy is a subreddit with 8k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses scrapy, web scraping, scraping, python, and scrape.
Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.
Popular Themes in r/scrapy
#1
Solution Requests
: "Run your Scrapy Spiders at scale in the cloud with Apify SDK for Python"
25 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Web scraping laws and regulations to know before you start scraping"
16 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Scrapy Playwright Issue"
5 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "New spider monitoring extension released!"
1 post
#5
News
: "Scrapy 2.13.0 is released!"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/scrapy
#1
Scrapy
: "The Python Scrapy Playbook"
265 posts
#2
Web Scraping
: "Where does Scrapy rank on the top 10 Web Scraping open-source tools???"
116 posts
#3
Scraping
: "Where does Scrapy rank on the top 10 web Scraping open-source tools???"
60 posts
#4
Python
: "The Python Scrapy Playbook"
47 posts
#5
Scrape
: "How to Scrape Instagram Followers (More Reliably in 2025)"
31 posts
#6
Help
: "Looking for Scrapy Help"
27 posts
#7
Playwright
: "Scrapy Playwright Issue"
20 posts
#8
Xpath
: "Scraping Cloudflare Images"
15 posts
#9
Web Development
: "Don't crawl subdomains?"
12 posts
#10
Proxy
: "Datacenter & Residential Proxy Provider Comparison Tool For Web Scraping"
11 posts
Member Growth in r/scrapy
Yearly
+777 members(11.2%)
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Last updated: July 26, 2026