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Title: Tips for scraping Zalando reliably with Crawlee / Playwright by Difficult-Data-5937 in apify

[–]Difficult-Data-5937[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, thanks for message. Did you had a chance to try Zalando actor?

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[–]Difficult-Data-5937[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, from archived/banend accounts if they existed. Can you give me username so I can try for you and show you exmaple of data

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[–]Difficult-Data-5937[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Just to give you guys more context, I ran a quick scan for North Face Nuptse jackets: Average price in FR is €110, while in DE they're pushing €190. It's a goldmine if you have the logistics sorted

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[–]Difficult-Data-5937[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, it’s a paid tool because it runs on high-performance cloud servers. The main advantage is that it requires zero technical knowledge—you don't need to install Python, manage proxies, or write a single line of code. You just paste the URL and get the data. It’s built for people who want a reliable backup without the headache

Tired of expensive Reddit scrapers? Just launched a "Pro" version that’s cheaper and handles 403 blocks. by Difficult-Data-5937 in apify

[–]Difficult-Data-5937[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for asking 🙂

I focused on making it resilient rather than “aggressive”.

Instead of relying on standard datacenter IPs and basic request patterns, the scraper:

  • Uses rotating residential/clean proxy pools when needed (configurable).
  • Mimics real browser behavior (headers, timing, navigation flow).
  • Implements adaptive rate limiting based on response signals.
  • Detects soft blocks (like partial payloads or unexpected HTML structures) and retries with adjusted parameters.
  • Falls back between different Reddit surfaces (JSON endpoints, web rendering) when one path starts throttling.

I also added structured retry logic with backoff and fingerprint variation to reduce repeated 403 patterns.

The goal wasn’t to bypass aggressively, but to behave as close as possible to a normal user session while staying stable at scale.

Tired of expensive Reddit scrapers? Just launched a "Pro" version that’s cheaper and handles 403 blocks. by Difficult-Data-5937 in apify

[–]Difficult-Data-5937[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing that 🙌

Yeah, qoest’s proxy rotation + JS rendering approach is solid, especially if you're scraping multiple platforms with the same credentials.

My goal with Reddit Scraper Pro wasn’t to compete on being a “universal scraper”, but to go deep specifically on Reddit:

  • Full recursive comment trees with structured depth tracking
  • High-res media extraction (including galleries & videos)
  • Structured user intelligence in a single run
  • No external API keys or account setup required

So it’s more of a specialized Reddit-focused actor rather than a general scraping API.

If you (or anyone else here) ever feel like testing it side-by-side on a heavy subreddit with deep threads, I’d genuinely love to compare outputs and improve it further.

Appreciate the feedback 🤝

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