How I built a tool that turns any website into a REST API automatically

How I built a tool that turns any website into a REST API automatically Most websites don't have a public API. If you want their data, you either scrape it manually with CSS selectors — which breaks every time the site updates — or you pay for a cloud scraping service. I wanted a third option: point a CLI at any URL and get a fully working REST API back, automatically. No selectors. No config. No code. Here's how WebSnap works under the hood. The problem with traditional scraping The standard approach looks like this: soup = BeautifulSoup ( html , ' lxml ' ) titles = soup . select ( ' article.product_pod h3 a ' ) prices = soup . select ( ' p.price_color ' ) This works — until the site changes its CSS classes. Then everything breaks and you rewrite the selectors. WebSnap takes a different approach: instead of targeting specific selectors, it analyzes the structure of the DOM and finds patterns automatically. Step 1: Render the page properly The first problem is that modern websites rend