#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.

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22
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
19
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.2/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-18 18:02 UTC
0
10-12
4
10-13
3
10-14
2
10-15
6
10-16
1
10-17
6
10-18

22 uses by 19 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-18 18:02 UTC

Live pulse

measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-18 18:02 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~215 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (40)

Avg boosts / post: 0.5

Top of the latest posts

  • 38 of 150 live Nike ads on Meta say "Install now", and the three oldest have run for 390–560 days. A look at Nike's app-first ad funnel.#marketing #ecommerce #growth #webscraping #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #commu

    Dev Community@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-10-18 11:37 UTCView post →
  • Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-permissions-despite-language-changes/ Comments: https://news.ycombina

    Hacker News@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-10-18 11:43 UTCView post →
  • Denver Post: Meta updates data scraping policy following criticism. “Meta announced Friday evening that it had made ‘clarifications’ regarding its new updated terms of service for its business and commercial products, which some legal and m

    ResearchBuzz: Firehose@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-10-18 09:05 UTCView post →

What “webscraping” means

Wikipedia

Web 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

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#webscraping across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #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