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Congrats to the Bright Data Web Scraping Challenge Winners!

The results are in!

After reviewing an incredible range of submissions - from academic search engines to YouTube browser extensions to AI-powered content aggregators - we're thrilled to announce our winners for the Bright Data Web Scraping Challenge.

The creativity and technical excellence displayed across all entries made judging a challenging but exciting process. While we wish we could recognize every submission, today we're highlighting the three winners that stood out the most.

Read on to see who they are!

Congratulations To…

Prompt Winners

Scrape Data from Complex, Interactive Websites

@sarahokolo built a super practical price comparison tool that works across Amazon, eBay, and AliExpress. Cheaperr helps everyday shoppers find the best deals and is a perfect example of using web scraping to solve a real consumer need!


Build a Web Scraper API to Solve Business Problems

@yukaty’s takes news monitoring to the next level by combining Reuters coverage with smart AI analysis. Tech Trend Tracker goes beyond basic data collection by monitoring industry movements through keyword rankings and semantic article search.


Most Creative Use of Web Data for AI Models

@dhanushreddy29 solves the "too much Reddit, too little time" problem by building Reddit Recap. Reddit Recap combines web scraping with AI to transform endless Reddit discussions into digestible summaries and audio briefings.

Simple, useful, and clever!

Prizes

Our three winners will receive the following prizes:

Prompt Winners

All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

Our Sponsor

We want to give a big shout out to Bright Data for organizing this challenge with us. Their platform makes it truly easy to collect, organize, and scale data extraction projects. We are grateful they decided to partner with us. Noah and team were wonderful to work with!

What’s next?

More challenges! More challenges! Check out our challenge page to see what’s launching next, and follow the challenge tag so you don’t miss any announcements:

#devchallenge

This is the official tag for submissions and announcements related to DEV Challenges.

Thank you to everyone who participated! We hope you had fun, felt challenged, and maybe added a thing or two to your professional profile. See you next time!

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Jackson Kasi

Congrats, guys! 🎉 @sarahokolo, @yukaty, and @dhanushreddy29 🔥

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sahra 💫

Thanks @jacksonkasi 💫

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sahra 💫

Thank you to The DEV Team @thepracticaldev and @brightdata for hosting this challenge 🤗💫. I'm so honoured to be selected as one of the winners. An amazing Birthday gift for me 🥳🥂

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Ansell Maximilian

Happy birthday! 🎂🥳

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sahra 💫

Thank youu🤗💫

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Jess Lee
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sahra 💫 • Edited

A big thanks Jess 😊

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yukaty

Thank you, @jess !

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Dhanush Reddy

Thanks @jess 😃

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Vicente G. Reyes

Congratulations to the winners!

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pathofBuilding

Congratulations to the winners of the Bright Data Web Scraping Challenge! The creativity and technical excellence displayed in their submissions, such as @sarahokolo's price comparison tool that scrapes data from Amazon, eBay, and AliExpress, show how web scraping can solve real-world problems. Another standout was @johndoe’s AI-powered content aggregator, which efficiently pulls and analyzes data from multiple news sources. These projects highlight the power of web scraping in building impactful tools. For developers looking to enhance their skills in web scraping, resources like pathofbuilding.net can provide valuable insights into effective techniques and practices.

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Ben Hichem

oh man now am sad that i missed this .
any ideas on when something like this related to automation or scraping ?

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