I agree with this. That being said, the author of the post seems to knock 'the right tool for the job', but I recently built two scrapers: one that scrapes an API (one time thing) and one that scrapes some websites (will probably be used once a month). The API one runs on PHP and auto-refreshes with a <meta> tag -- boring, but it works.

The one that scrapes websites I did with Node since some sites are multi-steps and the latency of a single scrape, plus the database latency could've turned this into a multi-week run with PHP