r/webscraping is a subreddit with 101k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses web scraping, 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
: "Vpn interceptor (domain/path level routing for android phone)"
22 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How to solve this motherfucking captcha?"
13 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Scraping hundreds of sites is a pain"
1 post
#4
Money Talk
: "In the market to burn money. Best email scrappers in the comments."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/webscraping
#1
Web Scraping
: "I own a wood factory and want to use webscrapers to get info"
27 posts
#2
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 🌱
: "I own a wood factory and want to use webscrapers to get info"
16 posts
#2
Bot detection 🤖
: "best github for reddit.com web scraping?"
6 posts
#3
Hiring 💰
: "Weekly Webscrapers - Hiring, FAQs, etc"
6 posts
#4
Scaling up 🚀
: "Pass Captcha automatically (dumb image captcha)"
4 posts
#5
Paid mentions ok 👌
: "Monthly Self-Promotion - August 2026"
1 post
Member Growth in r/webscraping
Yearly
+30k members(42.2%)
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Last updated: August 13, 2026