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Website-to-API

idea

Turn any website into a structured API. Read data, perform actions, no official API required.

What

A self-hosted service that turns websites into REST APIs. Two modes: read (extract structured data like prices, stock status, reviews) and write (add to cart, fill forms, complete checkouts). Give it a URL and a JSON schema, get back clean data. Give it an action, it drives a browser.

Why

Most of the web doesn’t have APIs. Firecrawl handles JS rendering, Skyvern automates browsers with LLMs, Web2API does schema-based extraction. They each cover a piece. This would combine them with a tiered cost approach: community-maintained CSS selectors for popular sites (fast, free), LLM fallback when selectors break (self-healing), and full LLM extraction for everything else. Similar idea to ad-blocker filter lists, but for data extraction.

Where it stands

Proof of concept works. Scraped Amazon and Best Buy through Firecrawl and got structured data out. The rendering and anti-bot parts are handled. What’s left is the extraction API layer, the adapter plugin system, and eventually write mode. The space is active right now with browser-use and Skyvern both growing.