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by theogravity 498 days ago
Airtop is designed to be flexible, you can use it as part of a full-blown agent that interacts with webpages or as a standalone tool for scraping and screenshots.

One of the key challenges in scraping is dealing with anti-bot measures, CAPTCHAs, and dynamic content loading. Airtop abstracts much of this complexity while keeping it accessible through an API. If you're primarily looking for structured data extraction, passing pages through an LLM can work well, but for interactive workflows (e.g., authentication, multi-step navigation), an agent-based approach might be better. It really depends on the use case.