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Show HN: MrScraper AI – Dead simple web scraper (powered by AI)
I've decided to test a new approach in my web scraping app. What do you think?
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Comment #34810574
Interesting project, Tom! I should plan more before coding. Is Code Planner free or paid?
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Comment #34751363
Already tried that. Not worth it with the current token limitations. But I'm currently tinkering with other applications of AI and MrScraper. Will ship something when I think it's …
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Comment #34751342
I'm experimenting with something like you described, but there are lots of edge cases and needs a bit of polishing. But for now, I made a Chrome extension that helps tinkering with…
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Comment #34751305
The onboarding process is not a fillable form, it's just a simplification of the scraper builder to show how it works. You just have to click next. Other users have also reported t…
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Comment #34751290
If the target page or DOM changes, it's not considered a failed scraping, just the data you wanted will return empty. But you gave me the idea to send an alert or email notificatio…
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Comment #34751269
Thanks for your precious feedback! I've noted everything down and I'll improve the onboarding experience, fix and make variable names more understandable and improve the edit butto…
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Comment #34743288
I could depending on the proxy I got from my provider. I'm currently working on adding the ability to select a higher quality proxy for difficult to scrape websites and to add capt…
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Comment #34743045
Honestly I haven't tried Octoparse, but doing a quick check, I can see it is way more expensive.
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Comment #34742973
Sorry for not being more clear. The onboarding process is a simplified version of the actual scraper builder. The fields are not editable, it's just to get used to the scraping flo…
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Comment #34742951
Thanks for this amazing feedback. I can get some action items from this. I've noted down your comment and I'll be improving things for next week!
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Comment #34741445
Thank you so much. Appreciate it!
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Comment #34738484
Hi there, I'm currently working on standard pagination (click next page button) and click button + infinite scroll. What you comment is not currently possible with a single scraper…
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Comment #34738463
Thanks for reporting. I'll review this!
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Comment #34738422
Thanks for sharing your point of view! I will rewrite the copy to make better statements. Thank you so much
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Comment #34738404
Noted! I'll improve this
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Comment #34738400
Thanks, I will do one!
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Comment #34738394
Honestly, I've been working on it for two months and didn't reach this part of the roadmap yet. I was planning to use a 2captcha integration for the first approach.
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Comment #34738381
Thanks buddy!
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Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool
Two months ago, I started building this side-project in the morning, before my full-time job. A visual and easy-to-use web scraping app. Please, roast it a bit so I can work on imp…