The 7 Best Web Scraping SubReddits
Reddit is a treasure trove of great resources and smart developers willing to help a fellow web scraper out.
You just need to know where to find them.
In this guide we're going to share with you the complete list of subreddits that every serious web scraper should be a part of in 2026.
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r/WebScraping
Number 1 on this list is r/WebScraping the largest subreddit dedicated to everything web scraping. With over 30,000 visitions and a pretty active community it is a great place to keep up to date on the latest news in web scraping and get help if you run into trouble with a particular website.
You can find resources/advice on anything from:
- How to scrape specific websites?
- How to bypass specific anti-bots?
- What are the best web scraping proxy providers?
- How to use particular web scraping libraries?
If you can't find a answer to your question then, just ask your own and someone in the community will help you out.
r/WebScrapingInsider
r/WebScrapingInsider is a newly launched community (as of late 2025) focused on high-signal, zero-fluff discussions for professional web scrapers. While it's still growing its member base compared to the more established subreddits on this list, it's worth checking out if you're looking for practical, data-driven conversations about web scraping.
The community is specifically designed for people who are shipping scrapers, keeping them running in production, and dealing with real-world challenges. You'll find discussions on:
- Industry trends and shifts in anti-bot technology
- Real proxy comparisons and cost breakdowns (without the marketing fluff)
- Finding good proxy providers that work but won't cost you an arm and a leg
- Discovering other proxy providers that offer similar performance at a fraction of the cost of big names like Bright Data, Oxylabs, Scrapingbee, and ScraperAPI
- Finding specific proxy types (SOCKS, IPv4, IPv6, etc.) and recommendations for smaller players
- Practical scaling strategies and infrastructure decisions
- Data quality issues and failure recovery patterns
- Open discussions about what's actually working in 2026
Since this is a new community, it doesn't have the same track record or member count as the other subreddits listed here. However, if you're looking for a community that prioritizes professional, practical insights over general questions, it's worth joining early and helping shape the conversation.
r/Scrapy
Next on our list is r/Scrapy, a subreddit dedicated to everything Python Scrapy. The leading web scraping framework for Python.
The r/Scrapy is the offical community center for the Scrapy framework, and the best place to share cool articles, spiders, Scrapy extensions and whatnots.
A number of the original creators and current maintainers of Scrapy are actively daily on the subreddit so if you have a Scrapy specific issue then the Scrapy subreddit is a great place to go.
The moderators are very open to members asking for help, advice and code reviews so it is a great place to go if you need any help with:
- Getting started with Scrapy
- Using some of Scrapy's less well-known functionality
- Customising Scrapy for your specific use cases.
- Picking Scrapy extensions or web scraping stacks.
r/Selenium
Whilst, not dedicated to web scraping, given how popular Selenium is amongst the web scraping community as a headless browser the r/Selenium subreddit is a great community to be a part of if you use Selenium as part of your web scraping stack.
r/Selenium is a large and active subreddit, dedicated to helping you to use Selenium in your automation and web scraping stacks.
In this subreddit, you can get help with Selenium specific setup, configuration and scaling issues from a experienced and helpful community.
r/Puppeteer
Like the Puppeteer subreddit, r/Puppeteer is a small but extremely helpful subreddit dedicated to helping you setup, configure and use Puppeteer in your automation and web scraping stacks.
The r/Puppeteer community are great for helping you with topics like:
- Getting started with Puppeteer.
- Debugging Puppeteer specific issues.
- How to deploy your Puppeteer headless browsers to production.
- Efficient scaling strategies for your Puppeteer headless browsers.
r/ProxyLists
Another subreddit dedicated to web scraping proxies is r/ProxyLists. On the surface it is dedicated to sharing free proxy lists you can use with your scrapers, however, proxy companies have kinda hijacked it and started spamming it with their own promotional content.
You can still find useful proxy information and discussions, but you may need to filter through promotional posts.
r/ShoeBots
Although not dedicated to web scraping, the r/ShoeBots subreddit can be a good source of info if you are primarily focused on scraping e-commerce sites.
The primary discussion topic in r/ShoeBots is helping people get into sneaker botting and finding the best bots for specific website. Sometimes there is good discussions about general web scraping topics (about proxies and selecting proxies for specific websites).
Websites that are frequent targets of sneaker botting are often the most heavily protected with anti-bot countermeasures, so the sneaker bot community have a very good idea which proxies are the best for particular websites.
Honorable Mentions
There are many more subreddits that regularly mention web scraping topics like:
If Discord is more your thing then be sure to check out our list of the best web scraping discord communities.
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