Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension

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PageSieve[1] is a browser extension for scraping data from different websites from within your browser. Currently it s Firefox only but I am open to porting it to other browsers if that s something people want.My original motivation for this started with a desire to improve the capabilities of the selectorgadget[2] bookmarklet to support extracting as well as finding selectors.The ideal use case is when some data you need is useful but you don t want to spend the effort of writing a one-off script to extract it especially nowadays when a lot of websites need an entire JavaScript environment to load correctly which complicates scraping.Using this extension means you only need to maintain the selectors for extracting the data and don t need to worry about managing dependencies. As long as the website can be opened in your browser you should be able to scrape data from it using the extension.I have a lot of features planned as well as some rough edges that need smoothing. I use this extension nearly everyday and I hope it can make somebody else s work easier.Take a look and let me know what you think.[1]: https://julius383.github.io/PageSieve/[2]: https://github.com/cantino/selectorgadget/

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