We're launching AI Scraper Builder by ScrapeOps on Product Hunt, and we'd love feedback from developers, data teams, AI builders, and anyone who has dealt with web scraping in production.
Most AI scraping tools focus on no-code extraction, browser plugins, or instant data output.
We're exploring a slightly different angle:
What if AI generated real scraper code that developers could inspect, edit, and run in their own stack?
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Ian here, founder of ScrapeOps.
We're excited to launch ScrapeOps AI Scraper Generator today.
We built this because creating and maintaining scrapers is still too slow, repetitive, and fragile.
The first scraper usually starts simple: open the page, inspect the HTML, find selectors, write the parser, clean the output, test it, then repeat the same boilerplate again for the next page type.
But in production, the real pain comes later:
• Selectors drift
• Fields go missing
• Page structures change
• JavaScript rendering behaves differently
• Output can look correct while quietly being wrong
Most scraping tools either sell a black-box API or a polished happy-path demo. We wanted something more useful for developers: a faster way to get to inspectable scraper code while still keeping control of the workflow.
So we built an AI scraper code generator around supported schemas and real developer stacks.
The workflow is simple:
Give a URL → choose your stack → generate scraper code → AI scores how correctly the scraper ran
Today, the generator supports workflows around structured page types like product details, product search, product categories, and prebuilt scraper examples for popular websites.
You can generate scraper code for Python and Node.js stacks, inspect the generated code, watch the generation progress, and then review an AI-powered scoring breakdown across areas like:
• Data accuracy
• Critical fields
• Data types
• Structure
• Completeness
That scoring layer is important. We don't want users to just get a blob of extracted data and assume the scraper worked. The AI checks the output and gives a quality breakdown so you can see how correctly the scraper ran.
During beta, ScrapeOps users generated 3,000+ scrapers with this tool. That helped us improve the schema flow, generated code quality, stack selection, and output scoring experience.
Some use cases we're seeing already:
• Ecommerce product data extraction
• Product search/category scraping
• Competitive pricing research
• Market monitoring
• Faster scraper prototyping
• Building starter code for data pipelines
• Creating reusable scraper templates
This is not positioned as "AI scrapes any URL magically." Scraping is messier than that.
Our goal is more practical: reduce repetitive scraper setup, generate code developers can inspect and modify, and use AI scoring to help users understand whether the scraper output is good enough to trust.
Longer term, we're also thinking about guided fixes, selector drift detection, replayable traces, IDE integrations, and tighter workflows with tools developers already use.
If you've ever had a scraper work perfectly on Monday and quietly break by Friday, this is built for you.
Would LOVE your feedback, especially on:
• The generated code quality
• Whether the AI scoring breakdown builds trust
• What would make this useful in your real scraping workflow
Thanks for checking it out 🙌
Generated scraper code still scares me slightly from a security perspective. People copy AI output into prod environments way too casually now.
This is a very real pain, scrapers usually look simple until the first selector changes or one page quietly returns bad data. Curious, do most users come to ScrapeOps because they want to build scrapers faster? Or because maintaining existing scrapers is the bigger pain?
@dmitrii_volosatov Right now. Then just want to rapidly prototype parsers for websites and get something working fast.
Our future plan is to solve the maintainence problem.
Since the tool generates code based on schemas, how does it handle high-frequency selector drift detection down the line? If a major e-commerce site updates its class names next week, can we just pass the original schema back through 'ScrapeOps' to patch the broken selectors instantly?
Every scraper eventually becomes a monitoring problem pretending to be a parsing problem.
@zact True. That is the next evolution of the Scraper Builder which will be coming soon. A self healing scraper that parses the data, monitors the outputs and updates the scraper when parsers start breaking.
The hardest part is generating good parsers, so that is why we started with this element with the Scraper Builder. Next is adding the monitoring element.