What problem does it solve?
This Skill eliminates the guesswork and frequent failures associated with ad-hoc web scraping and research, providing a proven escalation chain that works for any website or content type, from static HTML pages to dynamic JavaScript-rendered apps.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Smart Domain Routing: Pre-configured rules for popular platforms (GitHub, Reddit, arXiv, etc.) ensure the correct scraping method is used every time, avoiding silent failures like empty content or blocked requests.
- 5-Step Escalation Chain: Automatically tries the most efficient method first (sitemap discovery, Brave search, Firecrawl OSS, JSON API detection, Playwright) to extract data from any accessible web page.
- Scalable Batch Processing: Handles large research tasks (e.g., scraping 100+ company profiles or product pages) by splitting work into parallel batches to avoid timeouts and rate limit issues.
- Use Case: Use this Skill to research 50 SaaS companies, automatically extracting their pricing, contact information, and product feature lists from their official websites without manual intervention.
Quick Start
Use the web-research skill to gather public pricing and feature data for the top 20 project management tools listed on G2's website.