r/webscraping is a subreddit with 96k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses scraping, web scraping, data, struggling, and scraping tools, 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
Advice Requests
: "GMaps scraping - Do I need residential IP rotation for ~600 runs ?"
23 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Reverse Engineered Google reCAPTCHA"
20 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Reverse-Engineering Google Finance"
6 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Student with Python and web scraping skills but no income."
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/webscraping
#1
Scraping
: "New Free open-source Android automation for web Scraping - Damru"
101 posts
#2
Web Scraping
: "urgent full time developer hire, Web Scraping + infra recovery"
63 posts
#3
Data
: "Data pipeline and storage after scraping"
24 posts
#4
Struggling
22 posts
#5
Scraping Tools
20 posts
#6
Scraping Difficulties
20 posts
#7
Data Scraping
17 posts
#8
Api
: "Open source framework to reverse engineer Apis from any website"
16 posts
#9
Browser
: "Stealth Browser library that bypasses anti bot & solve challenges."
15 posts
#10
Website Scraping
14 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 🌱
: "The Complete Web Scraping & Anti-Bot Bypass Guide 2026"
26 posts
#2
Bot detection 🤖
: "Build an Agentic Browser That Beats Anti Bot Systems"
21 posts
#3
Hiring 💰
: "Weekly Webscrapers - Hiring, FAQs, etc"
13 posts
#4
Scaling up 🚀
: "How do you scale the scrapers?"
8 posts
#5
AI ✨
: "I built a reverse-engineering agent for the web"
5 posts
Member Growth in r/webscraping
Yearly
+31k members(47.0%)
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Last updated: June 5, 2026