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If you need to scrape, check out Kimono... https://www.kimonolabs.com/

Have to go and sign up, work out how the job needs to be described, deal with interface peculiarities, etc.

Similar to Magic. Might sound easy to order food online, but it's more time-consuming than just asking someone to do it.

Mechanical Turk gets expensive fast, and isn't very accurate, usually with any type of service, there's an overhead.

What this seems like is a quick way to get grunt work done. I can see how web scraping can fit nicely. However, some student with a lot of free time won't value their time as much so they will write a scraper but someone like a manager with a busy engineering team can save a lot of time outsourcing tasks like this.

Another solution is to use web scraping tool like https://scrape.it to scrape a website even for complicated AJAX websites. After you know how to use it, it's way faster than writing a scraper from scratch.

Disclaimer: I wrote scrape.it