๐ Stop Writing Scrapers โ I Built a Web Data Extractor API with Puppeteer (Full Code)
Scraping websites is one of the most annoying things in development. โ Every site has different HTML โ JavaScript-heavy pages break your scraper โ You get blocked randomly โ You waste hours fixing ...

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Scraping websites is one of the most annoying things in development. โ Every site has different HTML โ JavaScript-heavy pages break your scraper โ You get blocked randomly โ You waste hours fixing selectors So I decided to solve this once and for all ๐ ๐ฅ What I Built I built an AI Web Data Extractor API using: Node.js Puppeteer Axios + Cheerio ๐ It extracts structured data from ANY URL: ๐ Product data (title, price, image) ๐ง Emails from pages ๐ฐ Articles (title, content, author) And the best part: It automatically switches between fast scraping and browser scraping. โก Live API ๐ Try it here: https://rapidapi.com/kushanherath59/api/ai-web-data-extractor-api ๐ง How It Works Step 1 โ Try Fast Mode (Axios + Cheerio) import axios from "axios"; import cheerio from "cheerio"; export async function fetchStatic(url) { const res = await axios.get(url, { headers: { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0" } }); return cheerio.load(res.data); } ๐ This is fast โก and cheap. Step 2 โ Fallback to Puppeteer