And to answer your question, because my other post was a question itself: > after a certain point it does require some manual work from the customer Once you

And to answer your question, because my other post was a question itself: > after a certain point it does require some manual work from the customer Once you gain traction, you can become a platform, intermediary between customers and engineers that will fine tune scraping to what the customer needs. This could either be some sort of "Solution Engineer" that the company hires, or open it up to outside developers that get paid per integration (either by you or by the customer, or both). There's a solution to every problem. As far as the business itself, I think you could be on to something. Of course, ideas are cheap and it's the execution that counts, but here's how I'd think about it: with scraping, every website on the web has an API. Before, only 0.1% of websites had an API. And certainly wouldn't hurt to change the "scraping" word – such an ugly word.