{"id":50440317,"title":"Show HN: A Hacker's Web Browser – Any Site to API (Open-Source)","points":2,"user":"realsirjoe","time":1794318555,"time_ago":"3 hours ago","type":"link","content":"

Hey HN,

I made Relinos, an open-source programmable browser that lets you turn websites into reusable APIs.

The idea is to make browser interactions and extractions easy to create, export, and share. I'd like to build a community of shared website automations that anyone can understand and maintain.

Isn't this just Playwright?\nNo, Relinos runs locally and exposes a language-agnostic REST API. It handles much of the underlying complexity and common problems for you. This includes:

- Site actions ( click, type, scroll, ... ) with visual debug files

- Concurrency for rendered ( chromium ) and simple http requests

- Built-in caching of request results

- Per Request proxies

- Passes Cloudflare and reCAPTCHA v3

- Html to Markdown

- Html to JSON with xpathschema format

- Reusable routines with parameters and extractions

A Google Search automation that opens Google, enters a query, handles pagination and extracts structured data can be defined in just 24 lines of JSON.

  {\n      "url": "https://www.google.com",\n      "render": true,\n      "actions": [\n          ["actionWaitForAndSelect", "//textarea[@name='q']", "1"],\n          ["actionType","your search term",""],\n          ["actionSleep", "1", ""],\n          ["actionKeyboardEnter", "", ""],\n          ["actionSleep", "2", ""]\n      ],\n      "pagination": ["//*[@id='pnnext']", "2"],\n      "cache": "1d",\n      "format": "json",\n      "extraction": {\n          "results": {\n          "$xpath": "//div[contains(@class, 'MjjYud')]",\n          "$list": true,\n          "title": { "$xpath": ".//h3[contains(@class, 'LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md')]" },\n          "url": { "$xpath": ".//a[contains(@class, 'zReHs')]/@href" },\n          "site": { "$xpath": ".//span[contains(@class, 'VuuXrf')]" },\n          "snippet": { "$xpath": ".//div[contains(@data-snf, 'nke7rc')]" }\n          }\n      }\n  }\n

\nWe can make this routine easy to reuse by parametrizing and saving it.

The vision: Make the web programmable: imagine being able to use any website as an API, whether in your own applications or for an LLM.

I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Where should I focus my efforts next to support your use cases? \nSergio","url":"https://github.com/realsirjoe/relinos","domain":"github.com","comments":[],"comments_count":0}