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Try it out and let me know if you like it :). If there's a bug I'll fix it! More specifically, FetchFox is targeting a specific niche of scraping. It focuses o
by marcell 2y ago
Try it out and let me know if you like it :). If there's a bug I'll fix it!
More specifically, FetchFox is targeting a specific niche of scraping. It focuses on small scale scraping, like dozens or a few hundred pages. This is partly because, as a Chrome extension, it can only scrape what the user's internet connection can support. You can't scrape thousands or millions of pages on a residential connection.
But a separate reason is, I think that LLM's open up a new market and use case for scraping. FetchFox lets anyone scrape without coding knowledge. Imagine you're doing a research project, and want data from 100 websites. FetchFox makes that easy, whereas with traditional scraping you would have needed coding knowledge to scrape those sites.
As an example, I used FetchFox to research political bias in the media. I was able to get data from hundreds of articles without writing a line of code: https://ortutay.substack.com/p/analyzing-media-bias-with-ai https://ortutay.substack.com/p/analyzing-media-bias-with-ai . I think this tool could be used by many non-technical people in the same way.
- churros_train 2y agoAh thats really interesting! How do you evaluate large scale cloud scraping services, since its operations are entirely hidden from you? Personally I am looking into options in this area, are you planning to offer a cloud based version of this at some point/could you tell which existing ones are good if not?
- marcell 2y agoIf you don’t really care about the “morals” of the proxy services, just sign up for a few and see which one is reliable and has good cost. I used Luminati before, they have rebranded to Bright Data. Another is Oxy Labs. I do want to offer a cloud version. If it’s something you’d be interested in, please email and maybe you’d be a good early user for it. You’d get 1:1 attention as one of our early users. Email is on the site and in my profile.
- Malidir 2y agowhy would these non technical people even use a tool when they can go to a internet connected llm and say 'go to this site and get this info' e.g. Mr John Smith is a journalist, find his ten most recent articles via locating his personal website, news sites and social media. so wondering if your tool will be obsolete in a years time?
- marcell 2y agoI can’t predict the future but right now you can use ChatGPT to scrape maybe one or two pages at a time, but it’s harder to do a dozen or a few hundred. So that’s the niche I’m going for. Try it out and see if you like it. Curious if you think it’s better or worse than ChatGPT for scraping dozens of pages.