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Show HN: AI web scraper (no selectors, $2/1k pages, built by 1 dev)

web.instantapi.ai
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Instantly Turn Any Webpage into an API

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zeeb0t
·tahun lalu·discuss
Sorry for the late response.

I am self hosting Qwen3 and also use a series of models from OpenAI as a fallback / load balance.

I don't guarantee accuracy of data, however I have built in mechanisms for the AI to critique its own response before returning, which means that it is considered by my users to be accurate enough to be a major part of their production data workflows now.
zeeb0t
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Hey there.. I just wanted to update you. I took yours and others feedback seriously, and I have now implemented changes so that the services is now paid. At $0.02 per AI scraped web page, it includes all the proxy, JavaScript rendering, and AI to get the job, all on a single bill :) Thanks for your feedback!
zeeb0t
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Ok, well that is definitely in the works! In case you use Apify, I've also now published it there and it uses my own keys for OpenAI etc. https://apify.com/zeeb0t/instantapi-ai
zeeb0t
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It's... not what they are doing. It's what they said they were doing. But also, this isn't in a gimmicky (imo) hardware device. It's a general service so anyone can build on top of it.
zeeb0t
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I'm intentionally not storing any details of the request, and certainly did not want to enter into grounds of storing folks API keys for obvious reasons. That being said, I could have it generated a salt encrypted key for you which could be decrypted by my service, this way you are giving it one key, which is really both of your keys to be used. Is that the kind of thing you had in mind?
zeeb0t
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
RoboRabbit is interesting and aligns with what I've seen others doing in this space also. This product, and others I am building for, are part of a larger objective I have - which is to allow AI to both understand and fully use websites as if a human viewer themselves. Ideally you'll be able to ask it to book you an uber home, and it'll get the job done - even if uber didn't have API's etc. to make it possible.

It's why my approach here is 'all of the web, and whatever you want' rather than being restricted in any way.
zeeb0t
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I'm not sure what you mean re: ScrapingBee being expensive. I am scraping some pretty heavy pages and it's costing about a half of a cent for a page. Less again with OpenAI. All-in-all, maybe sub 1c per page. Maybe there is more you are doing with this CRM creation process you have.

Right now in terms of open source or SaaS ... I think it is likely at some point I will replace ScrapingBee, maybe even OpenAI, with my own version of these and then take it down to a single API key and bill users myself. However I am leaving it free (albeit with BYO keys) for the moment as I am still building things out. I will likely continue to offer free to those who were already using it before I switch to a different model.

As mentioned, this is just the beginning of this project. The next features include logging in to accounts, giving instructions, so that ideally you can say things like 'book me a uber for 3pm to take me home from work', and the API gets it done and returns you the confirmation and whatever else you asked to be returned.
zeeb0t
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Hard to argue against this.