r/webscraping is a subreddit with 104k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses scraping, web scraping, struggling, scraping tools, and scraping difficulties, and they frequently recommend/review coding language and vps provider.
The first rule of web scraping is... do not talk about web scraping. But if you must, you've come to the right place ••• read the sub rules before posting ••• check the community bookmarks below for a guide to getting started.
Popular Themes in r/webscraping
#1
Solution Requests
: "Is there a way to extract simple Yes/No answers from Google AI Mode?"
4 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Need Advice"
3 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Amazon review scraping: Amazon.com restricts review access"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "Is it dumb to build my own scraping platform?"
1 post
#5
Self-Promotion
: "Monthly Self-Promotion - October 2026"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/webscraping
#1
Scraping
24 posts
#2
Web Scraping
23 posts
#3
Struggling
22 posts
#4
Scraping Tools
20 posts
#5
Scraping Difficulties
20 posts
#6
Data Scraping
17 posts
#7
Website Scraping
14 posts
#8
Website
9 posts
#9
Scrape
9 posts
#10
Tools
8 posts
Products Discussed in r/webscraping
Coding Language
2 reviews
#1
Python
5.0★ from 1 review
#2
Selenium
5.0★ from 1 review
Vps Provider
1 review
#1
Linode
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/webscraping
#1
Getting started 🌱
: "Web Scraping"
8 posts
#2
Bot detection 🤖
: "Anti-bot solutions cost at scale"
4 posts
#3
AI ✨
: "Is there a way to extract simple Yes/No answers from Google AI Mode?"
3 posts
#4
Hiring 💰
: "Weekly Webscrapers - Hiring, FAQs, etc"
2 posts
#5
Scaling up 🚀
: "We're doing web scraping wrong"
1 post
#6
Paid mentions ok 👌
: "Monthly Self-Promotion - October 2026"
1 post
Member Growth in r/webscraping
Yearly
+28k members(36.4%)
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Last updated: October 2, 2026