Web Scraping

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jamditis·vlatest·backend·MIT

Helps with web development, web scraping as part of developing backend services and APIs workflows.

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Run this in your project

terminal

$ npx skills add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --skill web-scraping -a claude-code

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What we know about this skill

Publisher

jamditis

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Install target

Live repository

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Automated safety checks

scanned 28 Sept 2026

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

Declares what it does: passed
SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.
SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.
No undeclared network calls: passed
Makes no network calls.
Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.
No obfuscated payloads: passed
No encoded or obfuscated payloads.
No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.
No credential access: passed
Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.
Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.
No pipe-to-shell installers: passed
No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.
No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.
Pinned to a commit: passed
Scanned jamditis/claude-skills-journalism at 8a047d85f3.
The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit: 8a047d85f3
Manifest: dev-toolkit/skills/web-scraping/SKILL.md
Scanned: 2 files, 748 lines

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About this skill

What it does

The web-scraping skill enables AI agents to extract structured data from websites by parsing HTML and CSS. It supports dynamic content rendering, handling JavaScript-generated pages, and can be configured with custom selectors for targeted information retrieval.

When to use it

Extract product listings or pricing data from e-commerce sites for market analysis.
Gather news headlines and summaries from multiple sources for real-time updates.
Automate the collection of public records or social media metrics for research purposes.

Key capabilities

Parsing HTML and CSS for structured data extraction
Handling JavaScript-rendered content
Configurable selectors for targeted scraping
Support for pagination and rate limiting

Example prompts

"Scrape all headlines from the front page of technews.com."
"Extract product names, prices, and ratings from amazon.com/search?q=smartwatches."
"Collect recent blog posts from the last 7 days from mycompanyblog.com."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure compliance with website terms of service and robots.txt rules to avoid legal issues.
Use rate limiting to prevent overwhelming target servers or getting blocked.