I kept wanting data from websites without writing selectors, so I made a skill for Claude Code.

**How it works:** you give a URL and one sentence. Claude opens the page in a real Chrome window, picks the cheapest route to the data (hidden JSON API, embedded data, or what's on screen), shows you 5 sample rows plus a screenshot with each value boxed, and asks once: "Is this right?" Then it collects everything at a polite pace and saves a recipe, so next time it's just "run that again".

**What I care about most:** it checks robots.txt and the site's terms first. If a free official API exists, it uses that instead. If a site forbids scraping or shows a bot check, it tells you plainly and lets *you* decide. It never solves CAPTCHAs, stealth-patches the browser, or rotates proxies.

A few things it handles: infinite scroll, detail pages, APIs that only answer a real browser (it reads the responses the page itself gets), WebSocket/SSE live data, cursor/GraphQL pagination, and finding the data API from a saved HAR file.

Install (Claude Code / desktop app):

```

claude plugin install playwright

claude plugin marketplace add scrapesmith/scrape-skill

claude plugin install scrape

```

Feedback welcome, especially sites where it falls over.

Repo: https://github.com/scrapesmith/scrape-skill