Scrape any website for FREE with OpenAI + NodeJS
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This video demonstrates how to build a resilient website crawler using a combination of traditional crawling techniques and a Large Language Model (LLM). It emphasizes the fragility of conventional scrapers due to unstructured and changing data, and shows how offloading HTML parsing and selector detection to an LLM can make crawlers more robust and adaptable across websites.
The tutorial uses TypeScript and the Crawley tool (built on Playwright) to create a crawler that searches for watches on Amazon.com, navigates search results, and scrapes product details like title, price, and rating. It covers how to bypass anti-crawler measures using Puppeteer extra and stealth plugin, and how to leverage OpenAI’s cost-effective GPT-4.1 Nano model for HTML token processing. The video walks through the complete code implementation including helper functions that use the LLM to find page selectors, extract URLs, and scrape product data in a structured JSON format.
This approach minimizes brittle code tied to specific selectors and makes web scraping more maintainable, scalable, and cost-efficient. The video concludes by showing the output dataset and encouraging viewer feedback for future tutorials.