If you need live web data, stop writing your own scraper
eyishazyer · x · 2026-07-24
The post argues that if you need live web data for an AI app, you should stop writing your own scraper and use one of the existing tools instead.
It introduces a ranking based on what actually works in practice, setting up the comparison between a self-hosted crawler, a browser-driving agent, a prompt-built pipeline, and a single-URL reader.
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