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
101,579
102K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
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Growth · 7d
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Growth · 30d
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Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
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Tracking since Aug 4 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
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r/webscraping — frequently asked
How many members does r/webscraping have?
r/webscraping has 101,579 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 21. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/webscraping growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/webscraping yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 4; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/webscraping?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/webscraping yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
Can I promote my product in r/webscraping?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/webscraping yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/webscraping for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/webscraping into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/webscraping's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/webscraping's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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