5 months ago
Wed Oct 30, 2024 12:31pm PST
Show HN: ScrapeWebApp – The Simple Web Scraping API for heavy scraping jobs
This is my story. Last year, I built a chatbot builder and ran it for a year. We needed to scrape many websites to train each AI on various websites.

My experience was:

- I started with my own Python scraper using requests, Selenium, and Beautiful Soup. It was okay at first, but then there were too many edge cases, and it wasn't scalable... - So I checked many third-party API tools for scraping. Well, many fell short. I used one for 1 month, then moved to another one and settled with it. - While it was good, it was still hard to set up, choose the proxy, handle retries, manage scheduling, and concurrent requests. So that's where I want to help.

Features: Retries Logins Scheduling AI prompt

Use Cases: Price Tracking LLM Training Lead Generation Competitor Monitoring News Collection SEO Tracking

That's why I built [scrapewebapp.com](http://scrapewebapp.com) to handle retries, logins, background jobs, and scheduling. ScrapeWebApp API handles the complex parts of web scraping, so you can focus on building your product.

Please give it a try and I would love to know your feedback.

If you are a serious power user, I am happy to give generous credits for a 10-minute call about your use case.

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