I made a Chrome extension that can scrape any website with one click
Hi HN! Ah yes, another web scraper. There are so many out there, so why make another one? Because I wanted one that's stupid simple and stupid fast. Unlike most web scrapers, Easy Scraper doesn’t make you build a new scraper for each site or individually select fields. You just open it and bam, your data's ready to go. My favorite use case for instantly extracting data anywhere is being able to easily talk to ChatGPT about custom datasets. For example, here's a 1-minute demo of me scraping my Twitter followers to find the ones that live in San Francisco:…
I made a Chrome extension that can scrape any website with one click launched on March 2, 2024 with 31 votes, #1,073 of 4,270 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Easy Scraper is a Chrome extension that extracts data from any website automatically with a single click, without requiring users to configure separate scrapers for each site. Designed for anyone needing to quickly gather information from web pages, it runs locally on the user's machine for speed and privacy. The tool works by identifying and collecting data patterns automatically, making it useful for tasks like feeding custom datasets to AI chatbots or analyzing online information.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
The easiest web scraper you'll ever use. Easy Scraper is a Chrome extension that can scrape any website with one click. No coding required.
Automatically detect and extract lists of items from any webpage. Perfect for product catalogs, search results, directory listings, and more. Point and click to select exactly what data you want to extract. Process hundreds of URLs with bulk scraping. Join 100,000+ users who are already extracting data from any website with just onefrom easyscraper.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN! Ah yes, another web scraper. There are so many out there, so why make another one? Because I wanted one that's stupid simple and stupid fast. Unlike most web scrapers, Easy Scraper doesn’t make you build a new scraper for each site or individually select fields. You just open it and bam, your data's ready to…
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