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I Built a Free API That Scrapes Any Website Using Plain English - No CSS Selectors (opens in new tab)

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I've wasted days of my life maintaining CSS selectors. You know the drill - you write the perfect scraper, it works great for a week, then the site does a frontend redesign, your selectors break, and you spend another afternoon hunting through the DOM again. So I built Opticparse - a completely different approach. How It Works Instead of selectors, Opticparse: Opens a real Chromium browser (via Playwright) Navigates to your URL and waits for JavaScript to load Screenshots the page Sends the s...

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