ParseHub?

KINDAYou can build the valuable core, but the established product has meaningful operational complexity. Pick one narrow promise for v1.

BUILD FIRST

One specific customer type and one primary use case
A vertical slice that completes the main job without manual workarounds
Visible limits, review steps, and a fallback when an external dependency fails

LEAVE FOR LATER

Broad third-party integrations
High-scale collaboration, syncing, and permissions
Automation that can cause harm without human review

RESEARCH NOTES

What this tool actually does.

Checked 2026-09-06

ParseHub is a visual web-scraping tool for selecting page elements and extracting structured data from websites.

SOURCES

parsehub.com

RESEARCHED BUILD PROMPT

Give this to your coding agent.

Build a focused replacement for ParseHub. Do not copy the original brand, proprietary assets, name, logo, UI, or copy; create an original visual system.

Build the narrow workflow: define a small extraction project for one permitted website, run it against a fixture or URL, inspect rows, and export CSV.

Requirements
- provide a project with URL, selectors, fields, pagination, and repeat/scroll options
- show a visual selector preview, queued run progress, per-page errors, and extracted rows
- respect robots, terms, rate limits, and an explicit maximum-page budget
- store project JSON and export CSV/JSON

Out of scope for v1
- broad crawling infrastructure
- bypass of access controls
- scraping sites without permission

Use a small React/TypeScript app with a portable JSON or SQLite data model, explicit loading/empty/error states, and adapters around external services. Seed realistic demo data so the core flow works without paid credentials. Include a README with setup, environment variables, data model, implementation decisions, privacy behavior, testing instructions, and important limitations.

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