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A visual and easy-to-use web scraping app.
Please, roast it a bit so I can work on improving it. Thanks.
Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool
mrscraper.com
"With MrScraper, you won't be blocked.
We use real browser instances to perform fast but human web scrapings, resulting in a much lower block ratio."
"won't be blocked" implies a zero block ratio. (I do a lot of work with Puppeteer and Playwright, and some larger websites are pretty advanced at their heuristics at catching automation, so true zero really isn't a defensible claim)
This marketing bit seems a bit conflicting: "With MrScraper, you won't be blocked. We use real browser instances to perform fast but human web scrapings, resulting in a much lower block ratio." "won't be blocked" implies a zero block ratio. (I do a lot of work with Puppeteer and Playwright, and some larger websites are pretty advanced at their heuristics at catching automation, so true zero really isn't a defensible…
It looks interesting. I tried puppeteer and playwright but never got the hang of it, so I might be a client for one of these scraper services one day. The first time I tried it I got immediately blocked (probably because it had no agent, which was a raspberry pi)
This marketing bit seems a bit conflicting: "With MrScraper, you won't be blocked. We use real browser instances to perform fast but human web scrapings, resulting in a much lower block ratio." "won't be blocked" implies a zero block ratio. (I do a lot of work with Puppeteer and Playwright, and some larger websites are pretty advanced at their heuristics at catching automation, so true zero really isn't a defensible…
I feel like this is saying your systems have perfect security, which itself is not a defensible claim
Are you using a service like 2captcha to auto-solve captchas?
This marketing bit seems a bit conflicting: "With MrScraper, you won't be blocked. We use real browser instances to perform fast but human web scrapings, resulting in a much lower block ratio." "won't be blocked" implies a zero block ratio. (I do a lot of work with Puppeteer and Playwright, and some larger websites are pretty advanced at their heuristics at catching automation, so true zero really isn't a defensible…
Anyway, if you want to be technical about it, the marking is correct. YOU won't be blocked. The agent running on your behalf might be blocked, however...
But from a marketing perspective, this "you won't be blocked" falls into the acceptable simplification category. Maybe they could add a * footnote, giving some more detail elsewhere. But at this point in the landing page, it wouldn't make sense to try to state it more accurately as that would require too many words.
Website looks good; but it begs for a video