
Stop Scraping Pages by Hand — One API Call Returns Everything You Need
Stop Scraping Pages by Hand — One API Call Returns Everything You Need I used to have this gross four-step process every time I needed to understand what a webpage was doing: Screenshot it curl the HTML and pipe it through a parser Fire up Puppeteer to extract structured data Manually look up the tech stack Four round trips. Four scripts to maintain. Four things that break when a site updates its layout. Then I added a single /v1/analyze endpoint to SnapAPI and collapsed all four steps into one. Here's what a single call returns now: { "page_type" : "landing_page" , "cta" : "Start for free" , "navigation" : [ "Docs" , "Pricing" , "Changelog" , "Sign In" ], "buttons" : [ "Start for free" , "View docs" , "See pricing" ], "forms" : [{ "action" : "/signup" , "fields" : [ "email" ] }], "headings" : { "h1" : [ "The Screenshot API that Developers Actually Use" ], "h2" : [ "One line of code" , "No Puppeteer" , "Free tier included" ] }, "links" : { "internal" : 14 , "external" : 3 , "total" : 1
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