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Practice websites remove that penalty, handing you controlled pages and deliberate failure cases to debug against. This guide ranks nine public practice sites for 2026, each mapped to the skill it teaches, its difficulty, and the production problem it simulates. It also covers the order to drill them in and when to graduate to real websites. ## Key Takeaways A short summary before we dig into the details: - web-scraping.dev is the strongest production rehearsal here. Its July 2026 scenario table covers static paging, GraphQL, login, CSRF, block pages, and rate limits, though the homepage count needs a fresh check before you rely on it. - books.toscrape.com is the classic first target, with 1,000 book items, pagination capped at 20 per page, and no JavaScript required (toscrape.com homepage, July 2026 snapshot). - quotes.toscrape.com and Scrape This Site drill single challenges like login with CSRF, infinite scroll, AJAX, JavaScript, and frames, each isolated on its own page. - httpbin.org and JSONPlaceholder cover the request and API layer that most HTML tutorials skip entirely. - Start with static HTML, then add JavaScript, sessions, and hidden APIs. Move to real websites only when the sandboxes stop failing you. **Get web scraping tips in your inbox**Trusted by 100K+ developers and 30K+ enterprises. Unsubscribe anytime. ## Which Website Is Best for Practicing Web Scraping? The best all-around site for realistic practice is web-scraping.dev, and the best absolute-beginner start is books.toscrape.com. The rest each specialize in one job, from HTTP debugging on httpbin.org to browser automation on The Internet. Your quick pick depends on the job in front of you. Reach for Books to Scrape for a first scraper, web-scraping.dev for a production rehearsal, ScrapeGround for guided lessons, and JSONPlaceholder for API extraction. The table below groups all nine practice sites into four reader outcomes, which are first scraper, skill drills, production rehearsal, and the request and API layer: | Tier | Site | Best for | Difficulty | JavaScript | Production problem it simulates | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | First scraper | books.toscrape.com | Your first scraper | Beginner | No | Catalog crawl for price and product data | | First scraper | ScrapeGround | Guided lessons with code | Beginner | No | Headers, CSRF, cookies, pagination | | Skill drills | quotes.toscrape.com | One challenge at a time | Beginner to intermediate | Some endpoints | Infinite scroll, JS content, form auth | | Skill drills | Scrape This Site | Structured exercises | Beginner to intermediate | Some tracks | Search, filter, and table extraction | | Skill drills | WebScraper.io test sites | E-commerce layouts | Beginner | Some variants | Category-tree crawl with mixed pagination | | Skill drills | The Internet (Heroku) | Browser automation edge cases | Intermediate | Yes | Flaky, timing-dependent UI | | Production rehearsal | web-scraping.dev | Production-realistic practice | Intermediate | Yes | Auth, GraphQL, blocks, rate limits | | Request and API layer | httpbin.org | HTTP-layer debugging | Beginner | No | Request, header, and cookie inspection | | Request and API layer | JSONPlaceholder | API and JSON extraction | Beginner | No | Hidden-API and JSON endpoint scraping | All nine sites returned HTTP 200 in the July 2026 check, though access terms and liveness change over time, so verify each before a long session. The ranked breakdown starts with the most production-realistic option. ## 1. web-scraping.dev: Best for Production-Realistic Practice web-scraping.dev is the closest thing on this list to a real protected e-commerce site, without sending a single request to a commercial target. It is a realistic store with products, reviews, and testimonials, built as a safe learning surface. Where it wins is coverage. The July 2026 scenario table maps real patterns to paths, including static paging on /products, endless scroll on /testimonials, load-more buttons and background GraphQL on /reviews, hidden JSON in HTML, cookie and iframe logins, and CSRF token locks. It simulates the blocking side too. You get cookie popups, block pages, persistent cookie blocking, a 429 rate limit that sends a Retry After of 5 seconds after three requests in ten seconds, and crawler traps like session vortexes and infinite calendars. The quickstart below scrapes the first page of the product listing: python```python import httpx from parsel import Selector response = httpx.get("https://web-scraping.dev/products") selector = Selector(response.text) for product in selector.css(".product"): print({ "title": product.css("h3 a::text").get(), "link": product.css("h3 a::attr(href)").get(), "price": product.css(".price::text").get(), }) ``` The script above requests web-scraping.dev/products with [httpx](https://www.python-httpx.org/), then uses [parsel](https://pypi.org/project/parsel/) to select each `.product` card and read its title, link, and price. It runs without a browser because this listing is server-rendered. One honest limit is that the antibot and block pages are example fixtures, so treat them as detection drills rather than benchmarks for a commercial anti bot stack. Third party reviewers back the site itself, and Infatica's June 2026 roundup ranked web-scraping.dev among its top eight practice test beds. web-scraping.dev is best for intermediate learners rehearsing production failure modes end to end. If you are just starting, the [Everything to Know to Start Web Scraping in Python TodayComplete introduction to web scraping using Python: http, parsing, AI, scaling and deployment.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/everything-to-know-about-web-scraping-python) guide scaffolds the same httpx and parsel workflow. web-scraping.dev throws every pattern at you at once. When you want the explanation sitting next to the exercise, ScrapeGround is the better place to begin. ## 2. ScrapeGround: Best for Guided Lessons with Working Code ScrapeGround pairs each practice scenario with a written lesson and runnable code in two languages, so you read the explanation before writing your own version. It is Scrapfly's public educational playground. Each of its five scenario pages covers one topic with a real code example in Python and JavaScript, per the July 2026 homepage. The current lessons walk through the Referer header, CSRF token discovery via chained requests, cookies explained through a login flow, static pagination, and endless paging. The examples use httpx, BeautifulSoup, parsel, axios, and cheerio, so the lesson matches whichever stack you scrape with. One honest limit is that five tracks make ScrapeGround a guided starting point rather than a full curriculum, so verify the current list before you plan around it. ScrapeGround is best for beginners who learn by reading worked examples first. See [ScrapeGround](https://scrapfly.io/scrapeground) for the live lessons, and the [How to Handle Cookies in Web ScrapingIntroduction to cookies in web scraping. What are they and how to take advantage of cookie process to authenticate or set website preferences.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-handle-cookies-in-web-scraping) guide for a deeper take on the cookie flow. Guided lessons build confidence quickly. When you are ready to write a scraper from scratch, Books to Scrape is the gentlest real page to point it at. ## 3. Books to Scrape: Best for Your First Scraper Books to Scrape is the standard first target for good reason. It serves 1,000 fictional book items with pagination capped at 20 per page and no JavaScript requirement, per the toscrape.com homepage in the July 2026 snapshot. The site is a fictional bookstore at books.toscrape.com, part of the toscrape.com sandbox presented as safe for beginners and developers validating scraping technologies. It teaches CSS selectors and XPath, extracting titles, prices, ratings, and stock labels, and following pagination without duplicating records. A first scraper for the catalogue page looks like this: python```python import httpx from bs4 import BeautifulSoup response = httpx.get("https://books.toscrape.com/catalogue/page-1.html") soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser") for book in soup.select("article.product_pod"): title = book.select_one("h3 a")["title"] price = book.select_one("p.price_color").get_text(strip=True) print(title, price) ``` The script above fetches the first catalogue page of books.toscrape.com and parses it with [BeautifulSoup](https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/). It selects each `article.product_pod` card, then reads the title from the anchor tag and the price from the `price_color` paragraph. The production problem Books to Scrape simulates is the catalog-crawl pattern behind price-monitoring and product-data jobs. For selector practice, see the [Ultimate CSS Selector Cheatsheet for Web Scraping and HTML ParsingCSS selectors is a powerful HTML querying protocol which is used by browsers to determine what HTML elements to style. It's also incredibly useful in HTML parsing when web scraping or processing HTML data, as the same queries can be used to select values as well.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/css-selector-cheatsheet) . Books to Scrape gives you one clean happy path. Quotes to Scrape breaks that path on purpose, one challenge per endpoint. ## 4. Quotes to Scrape: Best for Drilling One Scraping Challenge at a Time Quotes to Scrape exposes one quotes dataset through eight endpoints, each isolating a different scraping challenge, per the toscrape.com homepage in the July 2026 snapshot. It is the second half of the toscrape.com sandbox. Each endpoint breaks your scraper in a specific way, so verify them live before relying on the details: - default, which combines microdata and pagination - /scroll for infinite scrolling - /js for JavaScript-generated content - /js-delayed for JavaScript content behind a delay parameter - /tableful for a messy table-based layout - /login for login with a CSRF token, where any username and password works - /search.aspx for an AJAX filter form with ViewState - /random for a single random quote The /login endpoint deserves a callout. It is a controlled place to drill login and session handling, since the source states any username and password works. The production problems here are infinite scroll feeds, JS-rendered content that breaks plain HTTP scrapers, and form-based auth. Quotes to Scrape is best for isolating exactly the skill that just broke your scraper. For the JavaScript endpoints, see the [Web Scraping with Playwright and PythonPlaywright is the new, big browser automation toolkit - can it be used for web scraping? In this introduction article, we'll take a look how can we use Playwright and Python to scrape dynamic websites.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/web-scraping-with-playwright-and-python) guide on the browser approach. Quotes to Scrape isolates skills one endpoint at a time. Scrape This Site packages them into longer, dataset-driven exercises. ## 5. Scrape This Site: Best for Structured Exercises on Realistic Datasets Scrape This Site is a structured sandbox with five exercise tracks covering countries, hockey stats, films, frames, and advanced challenges, per the July 2026 homepage snapshot. The site lives at scrapethissite.com/pages and credits its lessons and videos to Hartley Brody. The five tracks each raise the difficulty: - Countries of the World, a single static page - Hockey Teams, with forms, searching, and pagination over NHL stats since 1990 - Oscar Winning Films, loaded with AJAX and JavaScript - Turtles All the Way Down, built from frames and iframes - Advanced Topics, covering header spoofing, logins, session cookies, CSRF tokens, and common network errors The production problems Scrape This Site simulates are search-and filter result scraping and table extraction, the backbone of directory and stats jobs. It is best for moving from single-page extraction to multi step, form driven scraping. For the form driven tracks, see the [How to Scrape FormsLearn how to scrape forms through a step-by-step guide using HTTP clients and headless browsers.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-forms) guide on submitting and paginating search forms. Scrape This Site drills forms and tables on mixed datasets. WebScraper.io narrows the focus to one thing every e-commerce crawler must handle, which is pagination. ## 6. WebScraper.io Test Sites: Best for E-commerce Layout Practice WebScraper.io test sites offer four public e-commerce variants that differ only in how they load, which makes the loading mechanisms easy to compare side by side. The pages sit at webscraper.io/test-sites and were reachable without a payment prompt in the July 2026 check. The four variants change one thing each: - standard pagination links - a load-more button - items that load on scroll - a login-gated site-state version Each page description says it includes categories and subcategories. The production problem WebScraper.io simulates is category tree crawling, where the same store can paginate three different ways and break a naive crawler. A 2021 [r/learnpython](https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/) thread recommended these test sites, and the original poster agreed they looked useful for job-realistic practice. WebScraper.io test sites are best for e-commerce crawl logic, meaning categories, subcategories, and the listed loading styles in one place. Every site so far has been a parsing target. httpbin.org flips the view to show what your scraper is actually sending. ## 7. httpbin.org: Best for Debugging the HTTP Layer httpbin.org is not a scraping target at all. It is a focused way to see what your scraper sends and how an HTTP service answers, which makes it ideal for debugging the request layer before you blame a selector. The site describes itself as a simple HTTP request and response service, version 0.9.2, and credits Kenneth Reitz as developer. Its endpoints cover request inspection, cookies, redirects, status codes, and delays, and the homepage documents a local Docker image, `kennethreitz/httpbin`. A quick request-inspection check looks like this: python```python import httpx response = httpx.get( "https://httpbin.org/headers", headers={"User-Agent": "my-scraper/1.0"}, ) print(response.json()["headers"]) ``` The request above sends a custom User Agent to httpbin.org/headers, and the endpoint echoes back the exact headers it received. Comparing that output to a browser's headers is how you spot what gives a plain scraper away. When a failure might live in the request rather than the parser, httpbin.org isolates the HTTP behavior first. A related service, httpbin.dev, describes itself as a tool to debug and test HTTP clients, though you should confirm its current maintenance status before relying on it. httpbin.org is best for verifying headers, redirects, and cookies before pointing a scraper at anything real. For header tuning specifically, see the [How Headers Are Used to Block Web Scrapers and How to Fix ItIntroduction to web scraping headers - what do they mean, how to configure them in web scrapers and how to avoid being blocked.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-avoid-web-scraping-blocking-headers) guide. httpbin.org checks the request. The Internet checks how a real browser copes with awkward pages. Scrapfly #### Scale your web scraping effortlessly Scrapfly handles proxies, browsers, and anti-bot bypass — so you can focus on data. [Try Free →](https://scrapfly.io/register)## 8. The Internet (Heroku): Best for Browser Automation Edge Cases The Internet is a collection of UI edge cases for exercising browser automation, including dynamic loading, iframes, authentication, and disappearing elements. It lives at the-internet.herokuapp.com and comes from the open-source `tourdedave/the-internet` project. Its README describes the site as a collection of prominent and awkward web functionality for automated acceptance tests. The scraping relevant examples on the July 2026 homepage include basic and digest auth (both using `admin` as username and password), dynamic content and loading, a challenging DOM, broken images, file download and upload, form authentication, and frames. The production problem The Internet simulates is the flaky, timing dependent behavior that makes headless browser scrapers fail intermittently rather than loudly. One honest limit is that it is a QA automation site, so some examples like A/B testing and exit intent are irrelevant to scraping, so cherry pick. The Internet is best for hardening Playwright or Selenium scripts against unstable UI behavior. The [Playwright Examples for Web Scraping and AutomationLearn Playwright with Python and JavaScript examples for automating browsers like Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/playwright-examples-javascript-and-python) guide has patterns for waiting on dynamic content. The Internet stresses the browser layer. JSONPlaceholder covers the opposite end, where the data arrives as clean JSON. ## 9. JSONPlaceholder: Best for API and JSON Extraction Practice JSONPlaceholder is a free fake REST API for practicing the JSON side of data extraction that HTML only sandboxes skip. It lives at jsonplaceholder.typicode.com and documents six resources. Those resources are posts (100), comments (500), albums (100), photos (5,000), todos (200), and users (10). The homepage says all HTTP methods are supported and shows GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE examples in the July 2026 snapshot. Practicing clean JSON requests, query parameters, and joining related resources here is a controlled introduction to API backed extraction, framed as a skill analogy rather than a guarantee. The production problem JSONPlaceholder simulates is hidden API scraping, where the data lives in JSON endpoints behind the page. JSONPlaceholder is best for beginners learning API requests before hunting real hidden APIs. The [How to Scrape Hidden APIsIn this tutorial we'll be taking a look at scraping hidden APIs which are becoming more and more common in modern dynamic websites - what's the best way to scrape them?](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-hidden-apis) guide shows how to find those endpoints on live sites. That completes the nine. Before the practice order, here is how each site earned its place. ## How Did We Pick These Practice Websites? Every entry was publicly reachable in the July 2026 check and teaches at least one distinct scraping skill that maps to a production pattern. Availability and access terms can change, so recheck them at draft time. The bar for inclusion was consistent: - a public practice surface with no payment prompt on the checked page - purpose built for scraping practice, or explicitly presented as practice-tolerant - alive and stable in the July 2026 check - mapped to a production problem rather than a toy exercise The ranking logic put production realism first, then guided learning value, then how cleanly a site isolates one skill. One disclosure matters here. Scrapfly built and operates web-scraping.dev and ScrapeGround, and they lead the list because their scenarios map most directly to production problems. Readers should weigh that affiliation themselves. The other entries are third party or public surfaces, described only from details verified on their own pages. Two sandboxes were excluded because they belong to commercial scraping vendors we compete with, namely ScrapingCourse.com and the Oxylabs Scraping Sandbox. For how those vendors compare, see the [ZenRows alternative](https://scrapfly.io/compare/zenrows-alternative) and [Oxylabs alternative](https://scrapfly.io/compare/oxylabs-alternative) pages. That realism bar came straight from reader language, since beginners on [r/learnpython](https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/) in 2021 kept asking for practice matching things they might actually encounter in a job. With the criteria clear, the more useful question is sequence. The next section lays out which site to drill at each stage. ## What Order Should You Practice Web Scraping Skills In? Practice static HTML first, add JavaScript and sessions in the middle, and save hidden APIs and block handling for last. Each stage below names the site to drill it on and the guide that teaches the technique. 1. **Static HTML and selectors.** Start on Books to Scrape, then read the [Everything to Know to Start Web Scraping in Python TodayComplete introduction to web scraping using Python: http, parsing, AI, scaling and deployment.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/everything-to-know-about-web-scraping-python) and [Parsing HTML with XpathIntroduction to xpath in the context of web-scraping. How to extract data from HTML documents using xpath, best practices and available tools.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/parsing-html-with-xpath) 2. **Pagination and crawl completeness.** Use Books to Scrape and the WebScraper.io pagination variant, checking your extracted count against the 1,000-item figure on the toscrape.com homepage. 3. **Forms, tables, and search flows.** Drill the Scrape This Site hockey track, then see [How to Scrape FormsLearn how to scrape forms through a step-by-step guide using HTTP clients and headless browsers.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-forms) 4. **JavaScript and AJAX content.** Practice on Quotes to Scrape /js and /scroll and the Oscar films track, then see [Web Scraping with Playwright and PythonPlaywright is the new, big browser automation toolkit - can it be used for web scraping? In this introduction article, we'll take a look how can we use Playwright and Python to scrape dynamic websites.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/web-scraping-with-playwright-and-python) 5. **Sessions, cookies, headers, and CSRF.** Work through the ScrapeGround lessons and the Quotes login endpoint, then see [How to Handle Cookies in Web ScrapingIntroduction to cookies in web scraping. What are they and how to take advantage of cookie process to authenticate or set website preferences.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-handle-cookies-in-web-scraping) 6. **Hidden APIs and GraphQL.** Move to JSONPlaceholder, then the web-scraping.dev reviews and testimonials scenarios, then see [How to Scrape Hidden APIsIn this tutorial we'll be taking a look at scraping hidden APIs which are becoming more and more common in modern dynamic websites - what's the best way to scrape them?](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-hidden-apis) and [Web Scraping Graphql with PythonIntroduction to web scraping graphql powered websites. How to create graphql queries in python and what are some common challenges.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/web-scraping-graphql-with-python) 7. **Blocking behavior and politeness.** Finish on the web-scraping.dev block pages, rate-limit, and crawler-trap scenarios, then see [How to Bypass Anti-Bot Protection When Web ScrapingLearn how anti-bot systems detect scrapers and 5 universal bypass techniques including proxy rotation, fingerprinting, and fortified headless browsers.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-bypass-anti-bot-protection-when-web-scraping) This ladder takes you from a static page to handling blocks. The last question is when to leave the sandboxes behind. ## When Should You Move From Practice Sites to Real Websites? Move on when the sandbox scenarios stop failing you, and change how you behave when you do. On real sites you check current terms and robots.txt, respect rate limits, and identify your client where appropriate. The graduation signal is practical. Your scraper handles pagination, JavaScript rendering, and sessions on the sandboxes without hand-holding. Treat that as a readiness heuristic, not a guarantee of production readiness. Before using any live target, check its current terms, robots.txt, rate limits, and official API or bulk download options. Four candidates make good first real world targets: - **Wikipedia**, for large scale static, structured HTML like infoboxes and tables. - **Yahoo Finance**, for table-heavy financial data; see the [Yahoo Finance API: How to Get Yahoo Finance Data in Python (2026)Get Yahoo Finance data in Python with the yfinance library, the direct chart endpoint, and scraping, plus how to keep it running at scale.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/guide-to-yahoo-finance-api) - **Open data portals** such as data.gov, for bulk structured data that is explicitly public. - **old.reddit.com**, for dynamic content and rate limits on the legacy layout; see [How to Scrape Reddit Posts, Subreddits and ProfilesIn this article, we'll explore how to scrape Reddit. We'll extract various social data types from subreddits, posts, and user pages. All of which through plain HTTP requests without headless browser usage.](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-reddit-social-data) The politeness rules are short. Respect robots.txt, throttle your requests, and prefer official APIs and bulk downloads wherever a site offers them. Graduating to real sites is the goal of all this practice. A few common questions come up along the way. ## FAQ Is it legal to practice web scraping on real websites?Practice sandboxes are a lower-risk starting point than commercial targets. On real sites, risk depends on the jurisdiction, terms, and data, so check the terms and robots.txt, avoid logged-in areas, and keep request rates polite. How do I avoid getting blocked while practicing web scraping?Do not assume practice sites cannot block you. web-scraping.dev simulates block pages, cookie blocking, and a 429 rate limit, so use those fixtures to practice handling blocks before testing a real target. Can I use these practice sites to test my scraper in CI?Yes, as long as you add a liveness and rate-limit check. web-scraping.dev is built as a CI testing suite, and httpbin ships a Docker image you can run locally to avoid a live HTTP dependency. Do I need Python to practice on these websites?No. These sites expose ordinary HTML, HTTP, or JSON. ScrapeGround documents each lesson in both Python and JavaScript, so use whichever client matches the skill you are testing. ## Conclusion Pick the practice site that matches the skill you are missing, not the most famous one. The fastest learners drill one challenge at a time on sites like Quotes to Scrape, then combine those skills on a production rehearsal like web-scraping.dev. The escalation path is simple. Start on the sandboxes, move to polite real world targets like Wikipedia and Yahoo Finance, then take on production sites with real defenses. When your practice targets become real protected websites, Scrapfly's [Web Scraping API](https://scrapfly.io/products/web-scraping-api) handles the blocking, JavaScript rendering, and session management you rehearsed against, with SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, and Rust plus a Scrapy extension. Legal Disclaimer and PrecautionsThis tutorial covers popular web scraping techniques for education. Interacting with public servers requires diligence and respect: - Do not scrape at rates that could damage the website. - Do not scrape data that's not available publicly. - Do not store PII of EU citizens protected by GDPR. - Do not repurpose *entire* public datasets which can be illegal in some countries. Scrapfly does not offer legal advice but these are good general rules to follow. For more you should consult a lawyer. [ Add as a preferred source ](https://google.com/preferences/source?q=scrapfly.io) Table of Contents Table of Contents- [Key Takeaways](#key-takeaways) - [Which Website Is Best for Practicing Web Scraping?](#which-website-is-best-for-practicing-web-scraping) - [1. web-scraping.dev: Best for Production-Realistic Practice](#1-web-scraping-dev-best-for-production-realistic-practice) - [2. ScrapeGround: Best for Guided Lessons with Working Code](#2-scrapeground-best-for-guided-lessons-with-working-code) - [3. Books to Scrape: Best for Your First Scraper](#3-books-to-scrape-best-for-your-first-scraper) - [4. Quotes to Scrape: Best for Drilling One Scraping Challenge at a Time](#4-quotes-to-scrape-best-for-drilling-one-scraping-challenge-at-a-time) - [5. Scrape This Site: Best for Structured Exercises on Realistic Datasets](#5-scrape-this-site-best-for-structured-exercises-on-realistic-datasets) - [6. WebScraper.io Test Sites: Best for E-commerce Layout Practice](#6-webscraper-io-test-sites-best-for-e-commerce-layout-practice) - [7. httpbin.org: Best for Debugging the HTTP Layer](#7-httpbin-org-best-for-debugging-the-http-layer) - [8. The Internet (Heroku): Best for Browser Automation Edge Cases](#8-the-internet-heroku-best-for-browser-automation-edge-cases) - [9. JSONPlaceholder: Best for API and JSON Extraction Practice](#9-jsonplaceholder-best-for-api-and-json-extraction-practice) - [How Did We Pick These Practice Websites?](#how-did-we-pick-these-practice-websites) - [What Order Should You Practice Web Scraping Skills In?](#what-order-should-you-practice-web-scraping-skills-in) - [When Should You Move From Practice Sites to Real Websites?](#when-should-you-move-from-practice-sites-to-real-websites) - [FAQ](#faq) - [Conclusion](#conclusion) Join the Newsletter Get monthly web scraping insights Scale Your Web Scraping Anti-bot bypass, browser rendering, and rotating proxies, all in one API. Start with 1,000 free credits. No credit card required 1,000 free API credits Anti-bot bypass included [Start Free](https://scrapfly.io/register) [View Docs](https://scrapfly.io/docs/onboarding) Not ready? Get our newsletter instead. ## Related Articles [ http python ### Web Scraping with Python Introduction tutorial to web scraping with Python. 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