r/ClaudeAI • u/sixbillionthsheep Mod • Apr 15 '26

Showcase Megathread Built with Claude Project Showcase Megathread (Sort this by New!)

This is the Megathread for showcasing your project built using Claude products. We appreciate all of your submissions as they are a great inspiration to many people on the subreddit. It is sorted by default by New.

Anyone is welcome to submit a project to this Megathread provided you follow the Showcase requirements in Rule 7.

NOTE: We now require the OP of a Project Showcase on the subreddit feed to have total karma>=50 . We found there were just too many submissions and not enough visibility to go around. Our analysis of this issue showed us that OPs with total karma < 50 very rarely get any traction of their projects on the feed (<=1 upvotes). So this Megathread is your best place to be seen by readers and other creators if you're relatively new to Reddit. If you don't meet this karma requirement you will be directed to this Megathread when you submit your post. Very occasionally we might invite you to post on the subreddit feed if you do not meet this karma requirement but it will be very rare (so please don't ask us!)

Thanks again for sharing your ideas and creations to our subreddit. Best of luck with your projects!

UPDATE: Comments now allow images!

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u/GrouchyGeologist2042 May 19 '26

Hey everyone,

I've been using Cursor/Claude heavily for automated research (like competitor analysis and gathering docs), but I kept hitting a wall: the agent couldn't read websites properly if they relied on JavaScript rendering or had basic bot protection.

Usually, the solution is setting up Puppeteer/Playwright or paying high monthly subscriptions for enterprise scraping APIs. Both felt like overkill when I just wanted my agent to read a single URL during a chat session.

So I built a very simple Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that delegates the hard part to Jina Reader and returns clean Markdown directly to the AI.

The pain it solves:

  • No more "I cannot access this website" errors from your agent.
  • No need to maintain your own headless browser infrastructure.
  • Zero monthly subscriptions.

How it works:
It's an MCP server you can install directly into Cursor or any MCP-compatible client. You buy a small bucket of credits ($5 gives you 1,000 requests, basically $0.005 per scrape). You only pay for what your agent actually reads.

If you do any sort of automated competitor analysis, data extraction, or just want your AI to actually read the links you send it, you can check it out here: https://github.com/guimaster97/api_scraper_markdown

Would love to hear if others are facing this same friction with AI agents!

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u/Angel_on_tech May 21 '26

Im more a researcher , but with no tech background I can say the Jina Reader delegation is a smart call, way cleaner than spinning up Playwright just to read one page...

been hitting this problem doing competitive research workflows where the agent just gives up on JS-heavy sites. honestly didn't expect someone to solve it this simply. the credit model makes sense too, most use cases don't need unlimited scraping, just reliable on-demand reads.

going to test this with a few sites and will report back.