PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server
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HN · launched Aug 16, 2026 · 22 upvotes (top 24%) · 0 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 feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes An MCP server paired with a Python library that uses LLM prompts or heuristic fallbacks to heal broken CSS/XPath selectors is easily built with an AI coding assistant.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 489 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #102 of 490 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 289 days after the earliest competitor.
- ChromiumFish · hn · 2026-06-09 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Scrappy · hn · 2026-02-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- html · github · 2026-10-27 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Safari MCP · hn · 2026-04-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ScrapeClaw · github · 2026-09-18 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Obscura · hn · 2026-04-24 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Kosh · hn · 2026-10-25 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- PhantomCollect · hn · 2025-11-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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