The 7 Best Reddit Scrapers in 2026 (Free & Paid, Tested)
Looking for the best way to scrape Reddit posts and comments in 2026? Here's an honest, hands-on comparison of the top Reddit scrapers — including the…
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Looking for the best way to scrape Reddit posts and comments in 2026? Here's an honest, hands-on comparison of the top Reddit scrapers — including the…
I came across Scrapling through a recommendation on X and decided to put it through its paces — not against a demo page, but against Lazada Singapore,…
If you run a China book — equities, FX, commodities, or just a macro tilt — you already know the problem: the official numbers are slow and the Englis…
I got into lifetime SaaS deals (LTDs) the way most people do - I bought a few on AppSumo and got burned. Not catastrophically, but enough to notice: t…
Bluesky hit 40 million users earlier this year, and unlike Twitter, it runs on an open protocol — the AT Protocol — where public data is genuinely pub…
Hello world! I'm starting this series of examples/use-cases of siterows.com, the new app I recently built. Without further ado... 🔹 Quick reminder of …
Data Normalization Across Dublin Rental Portals: How to Make Listings Comparable Dublin rental listings are fragmented even across the main portals. D…
Maintaining session longevity in high-entropy adversarial environments requires decoupling structural browser fingerprinting from state validation. In…
While optimizing the background workers for a data-heavy pipeline (specifically cleaning up bloated log files and refactoring core/tools/buildinpublic…
TL;DR — requests plus BeautifulSoup is the right tool for tutorials, side projects, and one-off audits. It is the wrong tool for any scraper that has …
Note: This is a cross-post. Canonical version (full long-form) lives on my blog: https://blog.spinov.online/blog/ethical-scraping-is-a-rate-limit-ques…
Every scraping project I start, the same question comes up: do I actually need mobile proxies for this target, or will residential or datacenter do? P…
Been scraping for a while and got tired of getting blocked the moment a page loads. Standard Playwright leaks everywhere — TLS fingerprint, navigator.…
I recently experimented with building an Instagram OSINT project on Linux using Python and HikerAPI. Originally I tried older scraping libraries and u…
On 3 February 2026, three unrelated crypto cards — CEX.IO Card, Trustee Plus, and IN1 — stopped processing payments on the same day. They had no paren…
The Web Scraping Toolkit Spectrum Let's be real: there are dozens of ways to scrape the web. From raw curl to full-blow browser automation frameworks.…
The Problem E-commerce sites like Amazon, Walmart, and Target have moved to heavy JavaScript rendering. Traditional HTTP clients (curl, requests, fetc…
Today we are shipping CrawlForge v4.2.2 , our biggest release since launch. It brings three new tools, a standalone command-line interface, and a quie…
TL;DR — A "scraper" is a script that ran once. An "actor" is a unit of work with an input contract, an output schema, observability, and a billing mod…
Why my Reddit scraper went from 92% to 61% success rate in 30 days (and how I fixed it in one config flag) I publish a small Reddit scraper actor on t…
Top 15 Show HN posts of the year Rank Points Comments Title 1 3346 965 Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now 2 1557 363 Jmail – Go…
If your brand competes for Chinese consumers and you're not actively monitoring conversations on Weibo, RedNote, Bilibili, Douban, and Xueqiu, you're …
Web agents are increasingly central to how AI systems interact with the web — automating research, extracting structured data, completing multi-step w…
Your pipeline scrapes 10,000 pages through Firecrawl. A third come back as failures—access blocks and challenges, empty responses from SPAs that loade…
I pulled a 100-row sample of Sitemap to see whether the dataset is rich enough to support pipeline health checks, content auditing, structured-data va…
Automating Web Intelligence with Python: A Practical Guide Web intelligence — the systematic extraction of actionable data from the web — sounds like …
Empty-field-rate monitoring catches selectors that return nothing. It does not catch selectors that return something wrong. The most damaging form of …
I have spent the last two years staring at Akamai's bot manager. Specifically the _abck cookie, the bm_sz cookie, and the giant base64-looking string …
Parsing 94 district courts worth of PDFs. It went about as well as you'd expect. We started with a simple problem. My co-founder is a litigator. I am …
Weibo's "hot search" (热搜) is the closest thing China has to a real-time barometer of public attention. It updates every few minutes, ranks topics by a…