10 web scraping challenges (+ solutions) in 2025

1

Hacker News

Import { CheerioCrawler, Dataset } from 'crawlee'; Const crawler = new CheerioCrawler({ async requestHandler({ request, $, enqueueLinks, log }) { log.info(`Processing ${request.url}...`); // Function to check if an element is visible (filter out Honeypots) const isElementVisible = (element) => { const style = element.css([ 'display', 'visibility', 'opacity', 'height', 'width', ]); return ( style.display !== 'none' && style.visibility !== 'hidden' && style.opacity !== '0' ); }; // Extract data using Cheerio while avoiding Honeypot traps const data = $('.athing') .filter((index, element) => isElementVisible($(element))) .map((index, element) => { const $element = $(element); return { title: $element.find('.title a').text(), rank: $element.find('.rank').text(), href: $element.find('.title a').attr('href'), }; }) .get(); // Store the results to the default dataset. await Dataset.pushData(data); // Find a link to the next page and enqueue it if it exists. const infos = await enqueueLinks({ selector: '.morelink', }); if (infos.processedRequests.length === 0) log.info(`${request.url} is the last page!`); }, }); Await crawler.addRequests(["https://news.ycombinator.com/"]); // Run the crawler and wait for it to finish. Await crawler.run(); Console.log('Crawler finished.');.

#Social Networks #Social News #Startups 659 social mentions

2

Amazon AWS

For larger datasets or ongoing scraping, cloud-based solutions like MongoDB, Amazon S3 or Apify Storage become necessary. They’re designed to handle large volumes of data and offer quick querying capabilities.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #IaaS 446 social mentions

3

Anticaptcha

However, CAPTCHAs can still appear, even when precautions are in place. In such cases, your best bet is to integrate a CAPTCHA-solving service. Tools like Apify’s Anti Captcha Recaptcha Actor, which works with Anti-Captcha, can help you equip your crawlers with CAPTCHA-solving capabilities to handle these challenges automatically and avoid disrupting your scraping.

#Captcha #Web Application Security #Online Services 27 social mentions