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 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
: "Free Google search MCPs are broken, so I built an Anti-Bot Search MCP"
18 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How to solve this motherfucking captcha?"
13 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Scraping hundreds of sites is a pain"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/webscraping
#1
Scraping
: "Infinite scroll, table and rate-limit playground on Scraping Sandbox"
38 posts
#2
Web Scraping
: "Please help 🥺🙏 | Web Scraping task"
31 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
Tools
9 posts
#9
Website
9 posts
#10
Scrape
9 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"
28 posts
#2
Bot detection 🤖
: "Tiny CLI tool to scope website protections before building scrapers"
22 posts
#3
Hiring 💰
: "[HIRING] Enterprise Captcha v3 Solve At Scale"
14 posts
#4
Scaling up 🚀
: "Fredy - Self-hosted real estate scraper for Germany"
10 posts
#5
AI ✨
: "I built a reverse-engineering agent for the web"
5 posts
#6
Paid mentions ok 👌
: "Monthly Self-Promotion - July 2026"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/webscraping
Yearly
+30k members(42.5%)
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Last updated: August 4, 2026