🚀 Stop Writing Scrapers — I Built a Web Data Extractor API with Puppeteer (Full Code)

Scraping websites is one of the most annoying things in development. ❌ Every site has different HTML ❌ JavaScript-heavy pages break your scraper ❌ You get blocked randomly ❌ You waste hours fixing selectors So I decided to solve this once and for all 👇 🔥 What I Built I built an AI Web Data Extractor API using: Node.js Puppeteer Axios + Cheerio 👉 It extracts structured data from ANY URL: 🛒 Product data (title, price, image) 📧 Emails from pages 📰 Articles (title, content, author) And the best part: It automatically switches between fast scraping and browser scraping. ⚡ Live API 👉 Try it here: https://rapidapi.com/kushanherath59/api/ai-web-data-extractor-api 🧠 How It Works Step 1 — Try Fast Mode (Axios + Cheerio) import axios from "axios"; import cheerio from "cheerio"; export async function fetchStatic(url) { const res = await axios.get(url, { headers: { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0" } }); return cheerio.load(res.data); } 👉 This is fast ⚡ and cheap. Step 2 — Fallback to Puppeteer