Anakin pitches a self-hosted web scraping layer for agent loops
Roger_M_Taylor · x · 2026-07-24
A repost of Anthropic’s Boris Cherny article argues that agents should be driven by loops, not by repeated manual prompting.
The original thread says web-backed agents fail when source content is weak or inaccessible, and Anakin is building the access layer underneath them:
- URL Scraper converts any URL into Markdown, HTML, or structured content for LLMs.
- It is designed for scale across hundreds of millions of sites, including pages behind Cloudflare and Akamai.
- The product is self-hostable, with no cloud dependency.
- The screenshot highlights a fallback chain: HTTP fetch, anti-detect browser, then external APIs.
- Other features include domain-specific configs, failure detection, proxy auto-selection, and structured JSON extraction.
The post frames this as infrastructure for agent loops that need reliable source access.
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