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Firecrawl Universal Scrape Can Read Podcasts. The Terms Say You Can't Keep Them.
Universal Scrape puts podcasts, contact records, traffic and financials behind one scrape call. I read the terms for every paid provider. Half forbid what a ...
Before You Write a Scraper, Check Firecrawl Alexandria
Firecrawl's Alexandria sells the structured version of data you'd otherwise scrape: model benchmarks, app reviews, economic data, company records. Browsing i...
Track New AI Models on the Arena Leaderboard With a 70-Line Scraper
A scraper only ever tells you "now." Here's the 70-line harness that turns the Arena leaderboard into "what just showed up," with Firecrawl and SQLite.
Firecrawl CLI Setup: Skip the Installer That Rewrites Your Editors
One npm install, one environment variable, one smoke test. Plus the auth screen that tells you two contradictory things in consecutive lines, and both of the...
What to Do When Your AI Coding Agent Can't Read a Web Page
I built a four-rung fallback ladder so my coding agent could read any web page. Then I read two months of my own logs and found the bottom rung had never run...
Vibe Coding With Claude Desktop and MCP Part 2 - Switching to Scrapy
In my last post, I had a TypeScript-based scraper. In this one I switch to Scrapy.
Claude + MCP - 'Vibe Coding' Without Specialized IDEs Part 1
Cursor and Windsurf have gained popularity, but they can get expensive and they only do code. With Claude Desktop and MCPs you do the same thing and more.