PhantomCollect
Open-Source Web Data Collection Framework in Python
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HN · launched Nov 11, 2025 · 7 upvotes (top 62%) · 1 view
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
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes An open-source web data collection framework in Python generally wraps standard libraries like Playwright, Requests/HTTPX, and BeautifulSoup into reusable abstractions, which AI coding assistants excel at generating.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Unclear project goals and purpose, Vague or poorly defined implementation
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2027 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1205 of 2028 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 13 days after the earliest competitor.
- seriousdb · github · 2026-09-12 · 183 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Fitter · hn · 2026-07-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- YaraDB · hn · 2025-11-12 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- python-data-parser · github · 2026-09-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- CatchAll: Recall-first web search API · yc · 2026-04-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Data-World · github · 2026-10-13 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- IndexFlow · hn · 2026-08-28 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- duckpad · github · 2026-10-25 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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