I've wasted days of my life maintaining CSS selectors. You know the drill - you write the perfect...
Opticparse is a free scraping API using multi-provider vision AI (Groq, GitHub Models, OpenRouter) to extract data via natural-language queries, eliminating CSS selector maintenance. For scraper maintainers, it removes redesign breakage and DOM upkeep but trades screenshot-inference latency; shifting web extraction from brittle selectors to vision-based recognition.
I've wasted days of my life maintaining CSS selectors.
You know the drill - you write the perfect scraper, it works great for a week, then the site does a frontend redesign, your selectors break, and you spend another afternoon hunting through the DOM again.
So I built Opticparse - a completely different approach.
How It Works
Instead of selectors, Opticparse:
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