Ian Kerins

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I talk about building & marketing a SAAS business. 🚀

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How Much Does It Cost to Generate Web Scraping Code With AI?

AI is starting to change the economics of building scrapers. A scraper that used to take a few hours of manual selector work, browser debugging, schema cleanup, retries, and maintenance can now often be scaffolded in minutes.

The part I'm interested in is the real cost, not the demo cost.

What would make you trust AI-generated web scraper code?

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?

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20d ago

AI Web Scraper Builder - Lovable for Scrapers

Create production-ready web scraper code in minutes with AI. Paste URLs and our AI analyzes the page structure, maps selectors, and writes complete scraper code in Python, Node.js, Scrapy, Playwright & more. Free trial available.
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