Dev tools · September 30, 2024
Pipet – CLI tool for scraping and extracting data online, with pipes
I often find myself in situations where I need to extract some data from a website, either as one time thing or periodically (and then watch for changes). Maybe I'm tracking stocks, or a delivery, or I want to know when tickets become available to the local sauna; maybe a friend called and asked "can you get me all data from that website into a spreadsheet?" (this happens surprisingly often) I used to write one-off scripts for that, often with Python or JavaScript, but I noticed I spend about one minute getting the right CSS selectors, and then another 10 minutes setting the rest of the…
Pipet – CLI tool for scraping and extracting data online, with pipes launched on September 30, 2024 with 49 votes, #614 of 5,281 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Pipet is a command-line tool that extracts data from websites using either curl or playwright modes, eliminating repetitive boilerplate code. It supports one-time scraping tasks and periodic monitoring with change detection, allowing users to track prices, deliveries, ticket availability, or other data without writing custom scripts. The tool is designed for developers and non-technical users who need to quickly pull website data into spreadsheets or other formats.
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From the sources
Swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hackers - GitHub - bjesus/pipet: Swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hackers
In the maker’s words, at launch
I often find myself in situations where I need to extract some data from a website, either as one time thing or periodically (and then watch for changes). Maybe I'm tracking stocks, or a delivery, or I want to know when tickets become available to the local sauna; maybe a friend called and asked "can you get me all…
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