r/webscraping

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.

Members: 104,516
Created: 2014
Posts a day: 5
Avg comments, top posts this week: 7

r/webscraping is a Reddit community with 104,516 members, created in 2014. It averaged about 5 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts had a median score of 4 and an average of 7 comments each. Scraping, scraper and web are the words that show up most in recent titles. This month's top posts went up most often around 21:00 UTC, and most often on a Tuesday.

Only approved members can post in r/webscraping.

Data checked October 18, 2026 · Open on Reddit

What people ask

68Claude Code refusing to build scraper. Any way around this?138 comments · October 6, 2026
42Should people never share their scraping tools with others?30 comments · October 16, 2026
9Most profitable web scraping niches today?20 comments · October 6, 2026
2How to scrape a news site?12 comments · October 14, 2026
3Visitor keeps checking my portfolio. AI scraping, or Art gallery ?5 comments · October 18, 2026
13Has anyone run into legal issues with website aggregation?4 comments · October 14, 2026

Common words in titles

scraping 11
scraper 6
web 5
open 4
source 4
built 3
keeps 3
public 3
scrapers 3
site 3
blocking 2
cloudflare 2

Best time to post

21:00 UTC · 3 top posts
20:00 UTC · 3 top posts
03:00 UTC · 2 top posts
Tuesday · 6 top posts
Thursday · 5 top posts

These are counted from the timestamps of this month's 25 top posts. They show when popular posts went up and don't guarantee reach.

Rules

Open Discussions
Self-Promotions
Commercial Products

How to post in r/webscraping without breaking its rules

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Member growth

We started recording r/webscraping member counts on October 18, 2026. Growth will show here once we have a few weeks of history.

Get this data from the API

Every number on this page comes from ChatterAPI's Reddit endpoints and is refreshed about once a week. You can pull the same data for any subreddit from your own code or AI agent.

curl "https://chatterapi.com/v1/reddit/subreddits/webscraping" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHATTERAPI_KEY"

{
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/",
    "name": "webscraping",
    "nsfw": false,
    "title": "webscraping",
    "createdAt": "2014-04-06T10:50:02.000Z",
    "description": "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.",
    "subscribers": 104516
  },
  "credits": {
    "charged": 2
  }
}

Recorded response, October 18, 2026, trimmed.

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Questions about r/webscraping

How many members does r/webscraping have?

r/webscraping had 104,516 members when we last checked on October 18, 2026.

How active is r/webscraping?

Based on its newest posts, it got about 5 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts averaged 7 comments each.

When is the best time to post in r/webscraping?

This month's top posts in r/webscraping went up most often around 21:00 UTC, and most often on a Tuesday. That's when popular posts were published, so use it as a starting point, not a rule.

Can I get r/webscraping data through an API?

Yes. Call GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/webscraping for members, rules and description, and GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/webscraping/posts for its posts. Each call costs 2 credits, and new accounts get 100 free credits.