Easy Scraper
Dev tools
web scraper
SHOW HN2024
31points
10comments
#1,587of 3,515 in 2024
Top 46%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Pricing: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Great UI
From 1 comment
Great UI. Are you interested in or available for hire to create a new extension from scratch?
loceng on HN
Objections
Unclear why a scraper should be a browser extension rather than a scheduled tool for regular scraping
From 2 comments
Cool but why should I use a scraper as a Browser extension? The use case of a scraper is to scrape data of web pages regularly. As a browser extension I could simply visit the…
ulrischa on HN> it can be once, twice, frequently or infrequently That's the point: it can. So when I want to use it regularly this will not help. So when I don't know how regular I will need…
ulrischa on HN
Requests
Guidelines and docs on what it cannot do
From 1 comment
any website? that's a rather tall order. Does it cover js navigation? I was looking forward to some guidelines/docs. It would be great to know what it can't do, if there's…
pax on HN
Questions
Does it cover JS navigation?
From 1 comment
any website? that's a rather tall order. Does it cover js navigation? I was looking forward to some guidelines/docs. It would be great to know what it can't do, if there's…
pax on HN
Alternatives named
Browser automation tool the maker previously built
From 1 comment
Yup, it covers JS navigation. I spent the last four years building a browser automation tool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254147) so I was able to cover a lot of bases…
namuorg on HN