Why I stopped using Puppeteer for Reddit scraping If you've ever tried to scrape Reddit comments programmatically, you've hit one of two walls: Reddit's official API — rate-limited, requires app registration, and got far more restrictive in 2023. Headless browser scrapers — slow, resource-hungry, and break every time Reddit updates its Shreddit DOM. I maintained a Puppeteer-based Reddit scraper for over a year and was constantly patching it. So I rebuilt it from scratch with a completely different architecture. The architecture: bridge pattern Instead of spinning up a browser on every run, the Actor acts as an authenticated bridge to a dedicated scraping cluster. The Actor itself is lightweight — it: Receives the Reddit post URL as input Forwards the request securely to the cluster Receives pre-scraped, structured data Pushes it to Apify's dataset storage Results: Sub-second response times vs.…