Use an escalating scrape strategy in Claude Code before reaching for browser automation

Start with cheap static fetches, escalate to a browser only when needed, validate findings, and turn the result into a production-ready scraping approach.

Prerequisites

Claude Code, standard web access tools, optional browser automation tooling, optional Apify tooling for productionization

Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• "API requires authentication"

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Add this skill to Claude Code by placing this directory in the skills folder.

• Scenario 1: Scrape a Website

• User: "Scrape https://example.com"

• Source: https://github.com/yfe404/web-scraper

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yfe404/web-scraper/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://github.com/yfe404/web-scraper

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange