Should You Do Web Scraping in the Back End? Pros, Cons, and Best Practices or Is It a Good Idea to Do

Backend scraping is fine until it isn’t.

If your server’s already handling user requests, adding scraping is like asking a chef to also wash dishes—possible, but messy.

Microservices ftw here. Spin up a separate scraper service, maybe with Puppeteer or BeautifulSoup, and let it do its thing.

Oh, and Cloudflare bans? Nightmare. Use residential proxies or just… don’t scrape sketchy sites lol.