# Job scraper: the build-vs-buy guide for 2026

> A job scraper is easy to demo and expensive to keep alive - anti-bot, proxies, changing HTML, dedup, and a 2am pager. Here's the honest build-vs-buy math, by source, and when an API wins.

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