Hey devs 👋
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on a side project that involves collecting structured data from various websites (mostly product listings and user reviews). At first, I was using traditional tools like requests, BeautifulSoup, and Scrapy — and they worked fine, until they didn’t.
Once I started scaling things up even a little, I hit all the usual walls:
❌ IP bans
❌ CAPTCHAs
❌ Anti-bot protections
❌ Frequent layout changes
Eventually, I experimented with proxy solutions. I tried a few, and one that worked decently well for me was Bright Data — it allowed me to test scraping across different regions and IPs without too much setup. I'm still not sure if I’ll stick with it long-term, but it definitely helped bypass some of those annoying blocks.
That got me wondering:
🔍 What tools or platforms are you using for scraping at scale?
🔧 Do you still roll your own stack, or do you rely more on third-party services for proxy management, headless browsers, or data extraction?
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