If you’ve ever tried scraping modern websites, you know the pain. SPAs that never fully load, lazy images hiding content, bot protections blocking your every request… I was losing hours, sometimes days, just trying to get usable data.
One late night, fueled by coffee and frustration, I thought: There has to be a better way. That’s how FlyScrape was born — a TypeScript Node.js package that makes scraping fast, reliable, and developer-friendly.
My Developer Nightmare
- Multiple failed scrapers on SPAs
- Infinite scroll pages that never end
- Bot protections killing my requests
- Messy, unstructured HTML that no AI model could digest
Sound familiar? I knew there had to be a smarter approach.
Enter FlyScrape
FlyScrape is modular, typed, and production-ready. It combines Playwright, stealth techniques, and AI-powered content cleaning to deliver structured, LLM-ready Markdown from any web page.
I can now scrape dynamic content, handle infinite scrolls, and avoid bot detection — all with minimal code and zero frustration.
Why I Built It This Way
- TypeScript-first: Strong types and autocomplete mean fewer bugs and faster development
- AI integration: Converts messy HTML to clean Markdown for RAG pipelines or content aggregation
- Extensible hooks: Customize every stage of the crawl
- Performance-minded: Caching, lazy load handling, and resource blocking keep things fast
How It Changed My Workflow
Before FlyScrape, I’d spend hours debugging failed crawls. Now I can:
- Spin up a crawler in minutes
- Extract content-ready Markdown in seconds
- Integrate with AI pipelines effortlessly
- Spend my time analyzing data, not wrestling websites
TL;DR
If you’re a developer tired of fighting modern websites, FlyScrape is here to save your sanity. Clean, modular, TypeScript-first, and AI-ready — built by a developer who’s been there.
Check it out on GitHub: FlyScrape ( https://github.com/flyrank-bih/flyscrape ) and star it ⭐ if you find it useful.
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