Ask around about which scraping tool to use and the answers fall into the same few camps. Some swear by visual no-code builders. Others point to API services that handle proxies and CAPTCHAs. Developers mention Python frameworks or browser automation. And a growing group now tries AI tools that read pages from a prompt. All of these work for some jobs. The more useful question is not which tool is popular, but what happens to your data in the third month, after the site you d