[pkiv]

If you're open to it, I'd love to hear what you think of what we're building at 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...

Happy to answer any questions!

[jumploops]

This 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: [e-mail]

[retrofuturism]

You must get a lot of test emails to that FANTASTIC gmail address. Funny how it might even be worth some decent money.

[spyder]

That'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]

Personally I thought it was a LLM reply to a LLM marketing post to fake engagement. Lol

[jumploops]

Instructions unclear, here's a haiku about faking engagement:

Beneath the deep waves,

False likes in shadows do dance,

Submarine ploys drift.

[retrofuturism]

Hahaha okay I feel dumb now.

[natpalmer1776]

Well if you're dumb then we're dumb.

[peab]

I'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]

You login and grab the session and save it. Then you mount the session to the requests.

[maeil]

Am 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?

[naiv]

Awesome 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]

Good feedback! We'll take a look.

[sunshadow]

I don't see any difference than browserless?

[pkiv]

The price and the dashboard are a great start :)

[emilburzo]

Romania is missing from the list of phone number countries on signup, not sure if on purpose or not.