Reverse-engineer any site's API from inside the browser
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HN · launched Mar 21, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: reverse engineering tools · 102 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a browser extension tool (like Retriever AI) that intercepts network requests via the Chrome DevTools/webRequest APIs and prompts an LLM to parameterize endpoints into reusable scripts.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Halluminate WebBench, DOM parsing tools, Vision-based scraping approaches
Concerns raised: Rate limiting on social platforms like X, Auth credential security implications, Scale limitations beyond free tier (500 req/day)
Feature requests: Support for platforms beyond X, Higher free request tier
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 605 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #559 of 606 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 141 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Oversteer - The Most Reliable Browser Agent for Any Web Task · yc · 2025-11-05 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Simulate API traffic directly from your IDE with .http files · hn · 2026-07-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Chrome extension that blocks API keys from being pasted into AI tools · hn · 2026-05-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Let your coding agent iterate by seeing the browser · hn · 2026-07-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- I built an API for agents visiting my personal website · hn · 2026-05-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Anything API · hn · 2026-03-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Enrichr · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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