Claude Code stalled on Akamai; GPT Astra scraped a 12,000-product catalog in 30 minutes
Shivam__kumar · reddit · 2026-10-14
A developer shares a real-world scraping comparison: the task was pulling a 12,000+ product catalog from a large e-commerce site into structured JSON.
Claude Code hit Akamai protection, couldn't find a workable approach, and said it couldn't help bypass the defenses. Switching to GPT Astra via a ChatGPT Plus subscription, it worked through the steps, considered different approaches, and completed the whole task in about 30 minutes.
The takeaway: for scraping and research tasks, the ability to push past the first obstacle instead of getting stuck is the decisive difference — ChatGPT is now his first choice for this kind of work.
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