r/webscraping is a subreddit with 103k 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
: "mitmcloak – mitmproxy addon to mirror client's real TLS fingerprint"
26 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Running extruct on 100k CC WARC, looking for advice on speeding it up"
5 posts
Popular Topics in r/webscraping
#1
Scraping
: "Noob help: tax data Scraping from ~70 counties (dynamic)"
48 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
Scrape
: "Is there alternative to Scrape images from imago.images.com?"
13 posts
#9
Website
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 🌱
: "I own a wood factory and want to use webscrapers to get info"
21 posts
#2
Bot detection 🤖
: "Fingerprint Pro v4, deobfuscated, documented & lifted."
14 posts
#3
Hiring 💰
: "Weekly Webscrapers - Hiring, FAQs, etc"
10 posts
#4
Scaling up 🚀
: "headless chrome is not the giveaway everyone thinks"
5 posts
#5
AI ✨
: "LLM with less strict safeguards tailored to web-scraper tasks"
5 posts
#6
Paid mentions ok 👌
: "Monthly Self-Promotion - August 2026"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/webscraping
Yearly
+29k members(39.4%)
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Last updated: September 9, 2026