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YC · launched Aug 5, 2026 · 113 upvotes (top 5%) · 2 views
Niche: web scraping tools and apis · 172 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- B2B
- AI
- APIs
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Could you build this?
Partial Wrapping Playwright or browser APIs to scrape web pages is easy, but a reliable web-scale scraping API requires distributed anti-bot bypassing, rotating proxies, and high-throughput infrastructure.
What it would actually take: A scalable scraper API requires a distributed pool of residential and datacenter proxies, headless browser clusters (Chromium/Puppeteer), and custom evasion techniques against Cloudflare, DataDome, and Akamai. The hardest part is maintaining anti-fingerprinting patches (TLS, canvas, WebGL) against evolving bot-detection heuristics while keeping scraping latency and per-request costs minimal.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3879 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #186 of 3880 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 280 days after the earliest competitor.
- Rindler - Turn Any Website Into An API For AI Agents · yc · 2026-07-09 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- jelly · github · 2026-09-28 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- A CLI to scrape, search, and interact with the web for AI agents · hn · 2026-03-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Artie - Real-time data replication to your data warehouse · yc · 2026-06-09 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Crustdata - Web Search API for AI Agents · yc · 2026-02-05 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- YonshoreAPI · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- WebsiteBench · github · 2026-11-04 · 121 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Jevcrawl · hn · 2026-10-13 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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