#webscraping
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #webscraping from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #webscraping
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-14 05:39 UTC17 uses by 14 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-14 05:39 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 05:39 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~240 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 18:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 0.2
Top of the latest posts
For the scraper crowd: which job-board API is the most annoying to work with? (We normalise all four into one schema → https://apify.com/axiorasolutions/ats-job-scraper ) #webscraping #api #dev
As lawmakers focus on transparency in web scraping, new state and federal legislative efforts could create significant compliance considerations for companies deploying crawlers and bots. We examine two bills aimed at limiting bots from mas
🚀 It is a pleasure to announce #HtmlUnit 5.6.0! This release brings reworked JavaScript scope handling (var/let/const) and improved HTML parsing and innerHTML serialization. 📖 Read the full blog post (https://htmlunit.github.io/htmlunit-b
What “webscraping” means
WikipediaWeb scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes implemented using a bot or web crawler. It is a form of copying in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local database
“Web scraping” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#webscraping across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #webscraping straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/webscraping