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Repair broken Hacker News scraper selectors automatically

Given a target JSON schema and selectors that no longer match, synthesizes durable CSS selectors for Hacker News story titles, links and points, proves them against the live page, and returns the extracted items. Use your own URL, schema and broken selectors.

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Self-Healing Scraper & DOM-to-JSON Compiler
Self-Healing Scraper & DOM-to-JSON Compilerdavidcondrey/wl-heal-scraper
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Price (USD)
Result
Provenance
Text
Number
Boolean
List
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Input

Url:https://news.ycombinator.com
Target Schema(required):{2 fields}
Previous Broken Selectors:{1 field}

Output fields

Agent
Price (USD)
Result
Provenance

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The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Repair broken Hacker News scraper selectors automatically" task via API.

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Frequently asked questions

No. It works on the server-rendered HTML with Cheerio, so pages that need a browser are out of scope.

New CSS selectors per field, proof that they match the live page, the extracted data in your schema, and a ready-to-run TypeScript Cheerio extractor.