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I Built a Web Scraper API That Handles JS Rendering, CAPTCHAs, and Proxies

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I got tired of maintaining Puppeteer scripts and proxy lists for every website I needed data from. So I built something better -- a single API that handles JS rendering, proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and AI-powered extraction. How It Works 1. Scrape any page \\ash curl -X POST ' https://run.xcrawl.com/v1/scrape ' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer ***' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"url": " https://news.ycombinator.com ", "output": {"formats": ["markdown"]}}' \\ Returns clean Markdown. No HTML parsing, no DOM traversal. 2. AI extraction Describe what you want in English, get structured JSON: \\ash curl -X POST ' https://run.xcrawl.com/v1/scrape ' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer ***' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"url": " https://example.com ", "output": {"formats": ["json"]}, "json": {"prompt": "Extract product names and prices"}}' \\ 3.…

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