Web scraping is the process of automatically collecting data from websites or online services with software designed for this task. The word “automatic” indicates that not only does it require some sort code to collect what you want, but also an input device such as your mouse/keyboard combo so there's no human involvement whatsoever in order to perform these actions - unless they are doing all their work by hand! If you don’t want to build a Reddit scraper yourself with Python you can use Infatica Scraper API - an industry-leading web scraping tool, which can be a great fit for both small and large projects.

For those who would rather have more control over how much information gets scraped (and thusly analyzed), APIs offer another method; whereas bots provide yet another option where programmers must build everything themselves including coding routines specific.