RC

I was cool before. Now I think in ROI only.

[RC @its_ronc]

Three weeks ago I was ready to give up on a side project entirely.

I had a script pulling product prices off a few e-commerce sites for a price-tracking tool, and it worked great for about four days.

Then one site started returning 403s. Another served me a Cloudflare challenge page instead of HTML.

A third just gave me empty responses, which is somehow worse, because at least an error tells you something's wrong.

I did what everyone does at that point: rotated a couple of free proxies, added random delays, spoofed a user-agent I copied off Stack Overflow.

It bought me about a day before I got blocked again. I had a half-written Reddit rant open in another tab, the classic "is scraping just dead in 2026" post.

I didn't send it. Instead I went looking for a scraping API that could handle the anti-bot stuff for me, and that's how I found ScrapeBadger.

Signing up took two minutes and came with 1,000 free credits, no card needed.

I pointed it at the exact product page that had been blocking me, and got back clean data on the first try. Price, stock status, seller, all of it.

No proxy list, no spoofing, just a URL in and data out.

The part I cared about most, the Cloudflare wall, it got past on the first request with zero configuration from me.

It also claims to handle DataDome, Akamai, Imperva, PerimeterX, and Kasada, plus CAPTCHA solving.

I only tested it on a handful of sites over a few weeks, so I can't promise it holds up against everything, but on my problem it just worked.

There are also ready-made endpoints for Google, Twitter, Reddit, Amazon, Zillow, and more, so you're not always stuck parsing raw HTML yourself.

Pricing is credit-based, pay as you go from $10 or a subscription for heavier use, and the free credits were enough to actually test it on my real problem instead of a demo page.

My price-tracker runs every night now without me checking logs first thing in the morning.

I never did post that Reddit rant. If you're at the point of writing one yourself, try the free credits on your actual problem site first.

That's the test that mattered to me.

[ScrapeBadger @scrapebadger]

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The official API lets you search 100 of them per day.

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[RC @its_ronc]

@TheBestqueenx His wife was nearby.

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@venom1s You have crores in your bank account and this is who you choose to marry. Ludicrous!

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@TaraBull That one just did a hurdle jump w/ ease 😳

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@Rainmaker1973 Can't wait to meet her husband 🤣

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@CensoredLeak halleluyah!

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@NoContextHumans Interviewer: "Any special skill you want to mention?"

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@CensoredTube Are we thinking of this as humiliation? Go to Gaza, starve for a week and then be whipped in front of others — now that's humiliation for you. Fking first world problems.

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@Rainmaker1973 Very few remain in this world.

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@Rainmaker1973 Hope human mothers would learn a thing or two from them

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@desimojito Meetha alert!

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@kangminlee

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@EpicClipVault Huh?!

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@NatureUnedited "hey Dan, did you really have to stop the car over here? wait, he probably won't see me if I look away, right?"

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@NindaTurtles building his influencer following for a hefty paycheck from IG I see

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@NewsAlgebraIND so that's what we are discussing rn? about ketan's wig? what the world has come to!

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@coolfunnytshirt the fact that they are playing so good shows actually how GOOD they are

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@WhiteGirl1776 and that's America for you!

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@TansuYegen what is the hidden cost? all I see is rewards, baby!

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@NoContextHumans gotta get a friend like this