web scraping tools and apis
Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-05-01 → 2026-10-11), compared with the prior 5.4 months.
Web scraping tools and APIs allow developers and AI engineers to programmatically extract structured data from websites while handling anti-bot defenses, dynamic rendering, and proxy management. These solutions are built for technical teams and data scientists who require consistent, automated web data feeds without maintaining custom crawler infrastructure. Unlike broader browser automation or ETL platforms, this niche specifically targets bypass mechanisms and rapid transformation of raw web pages into clean formats like JSON and markdown.
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Pulled from real Hacker News comment threads on this niche's launches.
Members
| Name | Source | Upvotes ▼ | Launched |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context.dev | PH | 810 | 2026-07-02 |
| tiktok-web-signature | GITHUB | 712 | 2026-10-09 |
| HasData | PH | 438 | 2026-05-15 |
| Tabstack Dev Tools | PH | 324 | 2026-06-18 |
| I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS | HN | 320 | 2026-03-11 |
| BrowserAct Cloud | PH | 287 | 2026-08-14 |
| ZooData | PH | 271 | 2026-07-18 |
| Context.dev | PH | 264 | 2026-03-22 |
| SCRAPR | PH | 259 | 2026-03-09 |
| xscrape | GITHUB | 255 | 2026-09-20 |
| Prometheus by Firecrawl | PH | 249 | 2026-06-13 |
| Firecrawl CLI | PH | 248 | 2026-03-11 |
| Mindcase | PH | 246 | 2026-08-21 |
| Olostep | PH | 244 | 2026-08-30 |
| tweet.md | PH | 239 | 2026-05-25 |
| Answers by Context.dev | PH | 199 | 2026-09-20 |
| Tabstack Structured Extraction | PH | 199 | 2026-06-11 |
| Link Preview API | PH | 198 | 2026-07-08 |
| UserAgent-list | GITHUB | 171 | 2026-09-18 |
| Social Fetch | PH | 171 | 2026-07-07 |
| x-scraper-no-api | GITHUB | 167 | 2026-09-26 |
| Context.dev: Live web data API for AI agents | YC | 113 | 2026-08-05 |
| Pulpie | HN | 106 | 2026-07-06 |
| Scrape Anything by Context.dev | PH | 98 | 2026-10-12 |
| Robust LLM extractor for websites in TypeScript | HN | 72 | 2026-03-26 |
| wxpath | HN | 64 | 2026-01-14 |
| douyin-api | GITHUB | 64 | 2026-09-29 |
| Parse - APIs for any website | YC | 53 | 2025-11-08 |
| cf-clearance | GITHUB | 37 | 2026-09-25 |
| ScrapeClaw | GITHUB | 36 | 2026-09-18 |
| google-maps-scraping-apis | GITHUB | 30 | 2026-10-08 |
| reddrix | GITHUB | 29 | 2026-10-11 |
| firecrawl-api-examples | GITHUB | 29 | 2026-09-21 |
| Webclone.js | HN | 24 | 2025-12-02 |
| Riveter - Turn any prompt into a fully enriched dataset | YC | 22 | 2026-04-14 |
| PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server | HN | 22 | 2026-08-16 |
| amazon-scraper-skill | GITHUB | 21 | 2026-10-01 |
| Trying to fix the web scraping industry's benchmark problem | HN | 18 | 2026-07-16 |
| PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension | HN | 17 | 2026-08-16 |
| AegisCrawler | GITHUB | 15 | 2026-09-20 |
| Draco | HN | 15 | 2026-08-02 |
| MDCx | GITHUB | 13 | 2026-09-22 |
| WCAE | GITHUB | 11 | 2026-09-15 |
| scrape.land | PH | 11 | 2026-09-21 |
| job-scraper | GITHUB | 10 | 2026-09-29 |
| Scrappy | HN | 10 | 2026-02-16 |
| Tabstack Research | HN | 10 | 2026-02-04 |
| firecrawl-api | GITHUB | 10 | 2026-09-21 |
| gzh-export | GITHUB | 10 | 2026-09-23 |
| Crustdata (YC F24) | HN | 10 | 2026-02-25 |