Used brightdata for a Reddit scrape last month. Got blocked within an hour lol.
Their support suggested adding more proxies and randomizing user agents, which helped but was a pain to set up.
For smaller jobs, I’d just use Python + BeautifulSoup. Cheaper and more control.
Their support suggested adding more proxies and randomizing user agents, which helped but was a pain to set up.
For smaller jobs, I’d just use Python + BeautifulSoup. Cheaper and more control.