r/webscraping is a subreddit with 98k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution 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
Advice Requests
: "How to price this job?"
6 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Equivalent to undetected-chromedriver with Selenium Node.js?"
5 posts
Popular Topics in r/webscraping
#1
Scraping
: "Infinite scroll, table and rate-limit playground on Scraping Sandbox"
32 posts
#2
Web Scraping
: "Weekly Webscrapers - Hiring, FAQs, etc"
25 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
: "I made a tool to get a list of opensource portfolios that look cool"
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 🌱
: "Open-sourced my ExamTopics scraper"
6 posts
#2
Scaling up 🚀
: "Ajax endpoint returning Err"
3 posts
#3
Hiring 💰
: "Weekly Webscrapers - Hiring, FAQs, etc"
2 posts
#4
Paid mentions ok 👌
: "Monthly Self-Promotion - July 2026"
1 post
#5
AI ✨
: "AutomatiQ v0.2.1 - Now Supporting Websockets!"
1 post
#6
Bot detection 🤖
: "geocaptcha.delivery bypass"
1 post
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Yearly
+31k members(45.3%)
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Last updated: July 7, 2026