01 / Prizes
Three judged tracks and a raffle nobody has to build for. The iPad and the keyboard go to every member of the winning team.
Grand prize · Web-Slinger track
NVIDIA DGX Spark
Personal AI supercomputer
Prize value
$5,000
To the winning team
The winning team chooses: the DGX Spark itself, or the $5,000 as prize money.
The submission that gets the most out of the platform: the scraper you designed in Scraper Studio, how you drove it from your coding agent, what it did when the site changed under it, and what the structured output went on to power.
Suit-Up track
Apple iPad
To every member of the team
The project that looks and feels finished. Data is only useful once someone can read it.
Spider-Sense track
Keychron Keyboard
To every member of the team
Readable, structured, and handled at the edges. The repository a stranger could pick up on Monday.
Raffle
Iron Man MK5 Helmet
To one lucky registration
Black Edition, with voice control, drawn from everyone who signs up. You don't have to win a track, submit a project, or write a line of code to take it home.
Split across the top teams, so the collectors you built this week keep running long after it ends.
Share what you're building on socials and tag WeMakeDevs. Ten of you get a box.
Not a prize and not split between teams: sign up with Bright Data and the $50 is yours to build with.
Nothing on your account? Enter the code wemakedevs in the billing section of your profile. Make sure it's all lowercase.
02 / About
Scrapers work in testing, then break quietly the first time a site changes a class name. This week is about fixing that.
example-store.com/laptops
Illustration
Before the redesign
.product-grid > .card .priceExtraction returned nothing
After self-healing
[data-test="price"] > span.amount1,284 rows recovered
You describe the field once, in plain language. When the page moves, Scraper Studio rewrites the extraction against that description and the collector, c_8f2a91, carries on returning the same shape of data.
A class is renamed, a field moves, or the whole layout is redesigned overnight.
Extraction comes back empty where it used to come back with a value.
Scraper Studio rewrites the extraction from a plain-language description of the field.
The collector runs on, and nothing downstream of it ever sees a gap.
03 / Sponsors
Bright Data handles the proxies, the retries and the unblocking. You describe the data you want.
Title sponsor
The tools and infrastructure for collecting publicly available web data. Describe the data you want and get a custom scraper, from an AI agent, a browser IDE, or the CLI.
Scrapers run on Bright Data's proxy and unblocking network, so proxy rotation, retries and scraping servers are not your problem. Through the CLI, that whole workflow lives inside Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.
Your coding agent
Illustration
Scrape the name, price and stock of every laptop in this store's category pages.
bright-data · create scraper
bright-data · run collector
1,284 rows · collector c_8f2a91
Six days later, the store redesigns its product page.
bright-data · self-heal collector
Extraction repaired · 1,284 rows
No scraping servers, no proxy rotation, no selector maintenance. The collector is an id you can run again from the CLI or call as an API endpoint from your product.
Every participant
Sign up with Bright Data and the $50 is yours to build with, on top of Scraper Studio's free tier.
Signed up and nothing showing? Enter the code wemakedevs in the billing section of your profile. Make sure it's all lowercase. Still nothing? Email contact@wemakedevs.org and we'll sort it out.
04 / Ideas
The theme is open-ended. Build in any category, as long as a Scraper Studio scraper feeds it.
Track prices, availability, discounts, and product changes across regional stores or specialised marketplaces.
Convert an entire documentation website into structured data for a citation-backed search or question-answering system.
Monitor product pages, changelogs, release notes, company directories, or public announcements for meaningful changes.
Collect listings, reviews, public company information, or industry data and turn it into a searchable research platform.
Analyse public activity from developer communities, package registries, product directories, or technology websites.
Validate scraper output, detect missing fields, track failures, and trigger a repair or review workflow.
05 / Judging
Six criteria, weighted equally. The demo is scored as hard as the code.
Does the project solve a clear and useful problem?
Does the project approach web-data collection in an original way?
Is the implementation complete, reliable, and well structured?
Is Bright Data Scraper Studio central to the project?
Does the project account for website changes, missing data, or extraction failures?
Does the demo clearly explain the problem, scraper workflow, structured output, and final product?
06 / FAQ
You can take part online or join us in person in San Francisco. Whatever works for you!
It all happens on one Google Form, and there's no account to create here. Open the registration form.
Yes. Every eligible project must use Bright Data Scraper Studio.
Every tool, guide, and tutorial you need is collected on one page. Browse the resources.
On the iPad and Keychron tracks, yes: every member of the winning team gets one, not one representative. The grand prize is a single NVIDIA DGX Spark awarded to the winning team, and the team can take the $5,000 as prize money instead of the machine.
No. Every participant gets $50 in Bright Data credits to build with, on top of Scraper Studio's free tier of 5,000 credits a month. Run out before you ship and we'll top you up. Email contact@wemakedevs.org.
Sign up for Bright Data, open the billing section of your profile, and enter the promo code wemakedevs. Make sure it's all lowercase. The $50 is credited to your account. Sign up for Bright Data.
The credits come from the promo code, so signing up on its own doesn't grant them. You don't need a second account: open the billing section of your Bright Data profile, enter the code wemakedevs, and the $50 is credited to the account you already have. Make sure the code is all lowercase. Still nothing? Email us and we'll sort it out. Email contact@wemakedevs.org.
Every submission is considered for all three tracks automatically. There's nothing extra to file and nothing to opt into.
Every registration goes into it, and one is drawn once the hackathon closes. The winner gets the Iron Man MK5 helmet. Building a project is not a condition of entry.
Yes. You may use coding agents and AI development tools. You must understand the submitted project, verify the generated code, and be able to explain your technical decisions.
Use publicly available web data. Do not scrape private, login-protected, paywalled, or restricted information.
The submission form goes up on this page before the deadline, so check back and file it while it's open. You'll need your repository, demo video, project description, and how Scraper Studio was used.
Also on · San Francisco
If you're in San Francisco that week, you can join the Zero Downtime Hackathon on August 22, the in-person version of this event, also sponsored by Bright Data.