Hi HN!<p>Ah yes, another web scraper. There are so many out there, so why make another one?<p>Because I wanted one that's stupid simple and stupid fast.<p>Unlike most web scrapers, Easy Scraper doesn’t make you build a new scraper for each site or individually select fields. You just open it and bam, your data's ready to go.<p>My favorite use case for instantly extracting data anywhere is being able to easily talk to ChatGPT about custom datasets. For example, here's a 1-minute demo of me scraping my Twitter followers to find the ones that live in San Francisco: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/e3248c15a05041deae592d4157ddf4e2?sid=66ac035d-e924-46e3-b15a-94fa1aa89618" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/e3248c15a05041deae592d4157ddf4e2?...</a><p>Here are some other aspects that I think HN users will especially appreciate:<p>- Because it runs locally, (1) it's fast (stupid fast!) (2) it's private (your data stays on your machine) (3) you won't have issues with bot detection (unless you're scraping like a madman; obviously, use your discretion)<p>- You can use it without granting any browser permissions (which is great because Chrome extensions are often a security nightmare)<p>- You can use it without signing up for an account<p>I’ve been building Chrome extensions and web scrapers since college (over a decade ago!), and I'm really proud of how this one turned out. Check it out and let me know what you think!<p><a href="https://easyscraper.com" rel="nofollow">https://easyscraper.com</a>
"it's completely free for now because i'll be on a silent meditation retreat for all of march and didn't have time to add in paid plans."<p>Enjoy the retreat!
<i>any</i> 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 anything, save some dissapointment :)
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 pages by myself