Where Do You Usually Get High-quality Web Data For Scraping Projects?

I’ve been working on a few projects recently where I needed structured data from e-commerce and social media sites (like prices, product descriptions, user reviews, etc.). I used to rely on my own scrapers with BeautifulSoup or Scrapy, but as you know, many sites now have rate-limiting, bot detection, or constantly changing layouts.

Lately, I’ve experimented with Bright Data to access web data from different regions/IPs — mostly for testing, not large-scale production. It worked surprisingly well, but I’m curious:

🔹 What sources or services are you all using when you need consistent or hard-to-access datasets from the web?

🔹 Any experiences with open APIs, rotating proxies, or maybe even public datasets that saved you a ton of work?

Would love to hear your approach, especially for projects where the public datasets don’t quite cut it.