June 28th, 2024

Show HN: Linkgrabs.com the Simple and Fast API to Fetch JavaScript Web Pages

LinkGrabs.com offers API service for fetching web pages at $0.0005 per grab. Grab bags cost $5.00 with 10,000 grabs. New accounts get 33 free grabs and can request 333 more. API returns client-side rendered content.

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Show HN: Linkgrabs.com the Simple and Fast API to Fetch JavaScript Web Pages

LinkGrabs.com offers an API service for fetching rendered web pages at a cost of $0.0005 per grab. Each grab bag contains 10,000 grabs and costs $5.00 plus tax. New accounts receive 33 free grabs, with an option to request 333 more trial grabs via email. The service is intended for accessing client-side rendered web content, particularly useful for content loaded by Javascript after page load. Account IDs are randomly generated and crucial for accessing purchased grabs. Approved usages include scraping content owned or accessed legally. Abuse reports can be sent to [email protected], leading to the revocation of remaining purchased grabs upon validation. The API returns HTML rendered by the client browser after page load, capturing content 500ms post network traffic cessation. LinkGrabs welcomes feature requests via email for service improvement. Requests to the API are made through a POST request to linkgrabs.com/grab with the URL in the request body and x-linkgrab-auth header.

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By @menwillbemen - 5 months
Do you have any plans of open sourcing this?

Because I was thinking of making the same exact thing but in https://bun.sh/ for a use case I had for only taking screenshots at cron jobs.

I really like this tool but I would really love it if you could open source it and the website seems very premature (like the astro logo)

Other than that good job. I would like to see how this project progresses.

By @menwillbemen - 5 months
I can't seem to understand how to use curl / post requests to get png from a website? Your curl example only responds with html