Show HN: A prototype of a new visual web scraper project

[pawurb]

https://scrapy.apki.io/

[nautical]

There might be potential issue with the name as there is a library "scrapy" with the same name.

[pawurb → nautical]

I've noticed it after releasing the screencast. Maybe I'll consider renaming but looking at their license you cannot use a similar name only if you use their lib, and I don't

[davymac → pawurb]

I think most anyone on HN associates “scrapy” with the python library that performs a similar-ish function. I would highly suggest renaming, for many reasons, but other than the reason above, also googleability

[motyar]

Looks good. Got few questions:-

How you are going to copy the style ( css ) ?

Are you showing elements in iframe?

[motyar → motyar]

BTW I have build something related, try it here:- http://motyar.info/webscrapemaster/try/?url=https://scrapy.a...

[pawurb → motyar]

That's meta :p

[pawurb → motyar]

No. These are static screenshots. I am not planning to make them interactive for now.

[ibdf → pawurb]

Very interesting approach. A static screenshot is nice if you are just trying to get a quick look at the data, but in your own example it's not useful as you couldn't click on individual items such as the top 5 items on hacker news.