SMRTR ProgrammingMay 14, 2026Hacker News

I built a Web-Scraper API that is 6-7x more efficient than current ones

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Runo is a web scraping API that returns clean, typed JSON instead of raw HTML or Markdown. You define a schema with field names and types, POST to the API, and get structured data back — no CSS selectors or XPath needed. It auto-escalates to headless rendering for JS-heavy sites and handles bot bypass, CAPTCHA solving, and explicit nulls for unresolvable fields.

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