Why I Built 77 Web Scrapers Instead of 1 Universal Scraper

One universal scraper sounds great in theory. In practice, specialized scrapers win. Each website has unique data structures. Reddit's JSON API is different from YouTube's Innertube, which is different from Trustpilot's JSON-LD. A universal scraper handles none of them well. Specialized scrapers handle each perfectly. That's why I built 77: Reddit , YouTube , Trustpilot , Google News , Bluesky , HN , and 71 more. All free: GitHub | Apify Custom scraping — $20: Payoneer