I Published 100 Web Scraping Tutorials — Here Is What I Learned

I just hit 100 articles about web scraping on Dev.to. Here are the key lessons. Lesson 1: APIs Beat HTML Parsing 95% of the Time Most popular websites have JSON APIs. 7 sites return JSON directly without any scraping. Lesson 2: Three Tools Cover Everything fetch() — for JSON APIs (covers 70% of jobs) Cheerio — for static HTML (25%) Playwright — for dynamic sites (5%) Lesson 3: Rate Limiting Is More Important Than Proxy Rotation Random delays of 2-5 seconds between requests prevent 90% of blocks. Lesson 4: Validate Every Output Never return garbage. Check every field before adding to results. Lesson 5: The Real Money Is in Lead Generation Business owners pay the most for contact data extraction. My Full Article Index 100 Web Scraping Articles — Complete Guide Covers: Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Zillow, LinkedIn, Indeed, Trustpilot, YouTube, Reddit, Bluesky, Google Maps, and 20+ more platforms. My Portfolio 77 Production Scrapers 500 Market Research Reports 15 MCP Servers Need data from any w