PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server
Details
- External ID
- 49317799
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 22
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7647849462365591
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- self-healing web scraping for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 213 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #40 of 214 (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 0.54
- Scrappy · hn · 2026-02-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ScrapeClaw · github · 2026-09-18 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Safari MCP · hn · 2026-04-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Obscura · hn · 2026-04-24 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- job-scraper · github · 2026-09-29 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- SerpApi MCP Server · hn · 2025-12-05 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- PhantomCollect · hn · 2025-11-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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