How to Scrape Any Website in 2026 — The Complete Decision Tree

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Flowchart for choosing your scraping method:

Has JSON API? → YES → Use it (fastest, most reliable)
  ↓ NO
Has RSS feed? → YES → Parse XML
  ↓ NO
Has JSON-LD? → YES → Extract structured data
  ↓ NO
Static HTML? → YES → Cheerio
  ↓ NO
JS-rendered? → YES → Playwright/Crawlee

Real examples of each: Reddit(API), Google News(RSS), Trustpilot(JSON-LD)

All 77 tools: Apify

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