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If you're open to it, I'd love to hear what you think of what we're building at https://browserbase.com/ https://browserbase.com/ - you can run a chrome extensi
by pkiv 2y ago
If you're open to it, I'd love to hear what you think of what we're building at https://browserbase.com/ https://browserbase.com/ - you can run a chrome extension on a headless browser so you can do the semantic markdown within the browser, before pulling anything off.
We even have an iFrame-able live view of the browser, so your users can get real-time feedback on the XPaths they're generating: https://docs.browserbase.com/features/session-live-view#give-control-over-the-session-to-your-end-users https://docs.browserbase.com/features/session-live-view#give...
Happy to answer any questions!
- maeil 2y agoAm I correct that the use case of doing this is 1. Scale and 2. Defeating Cloudflare et. al? I do scraping, but I struggle to see what these tools are offering, but maybe I'm just not the target audience. If the websites don't have much anti-scraping protection to speak of, and I only do a few pages per day, is there still something I can get out of using a tool like Browserbase? I wonder because of this talk about semantic markdown and LLMs, what's the benefit between writing (or even having an AI write) standard fetching and parsing code using playwright/beautifulsoup/cheerio?
- sunshadow 2y agoI don't see any difference than browserless?
- pkiv 2y agoThe price and the dashboard are a great start :)
- jumploops 2y agoThis is super neat and I think I've seen your site before :) Do you handle authentication? We have lots of users that want to automate some part of their daily workflow but the pages are often behind a login and/or require a few clicks to reach the desired content. Happy to chat: username@gmail.com
- retrofuturism 2y agoYou must get a lot of test emails to that FANTASTIC gmail address. Funny how it might even be worth some decent money.
- spyder 2y agoThat's not literally his e-mail :D. He means that you have to replace it with his HN username. It would have been better to write it like this: [HN username]@gmail.com
- delfinom 2y agoPersonally I thought it was a LLM reply to a LLM marketing post to fake engagement. Lol
- jumploops 2y agoInstructions unclear, here's a haiku about faking engagement: Beneath the deep waves, False likes in shadows do dance, Submarine ploys drift.
- retrofuturism 2y agoHahaha okay I feel dumb now.
- natpalmer1776 2y agoWell if you're dumb then we're dumb.
- peab 2y agoI'm also curious about this! I've been learning about scraping, but I've had a hard time finding good info about how to deal with user auth effectively.
- sharpshadow 2y ago
- naiv 2y agoAwesome product! I was just a bit confused that the sign up buttons for the Hobby and Scale plans are grey, I thought that they are disabled until randomly hovering over them.
- pkiv 2y agoGood feedback! We'll take a look.
- emilburzo 2y agoRomania is missing from the list of phone number countries on signup, not sure if on purpose or not.