Web Scraping with Intelligent Strategy Selection

When This Skill Activates

Activate automatically when user requests:

• "Scrape [website]"
• "Extract data from [site]"
• "Get product information from [URL]"
• "Find all links/pages on [site]"
• "I'm getting blocked" or "Getting 403 errors" (loads strategies/anti-blocking.md)
• "Make this an Apify Actor" (loads apify/ subdirectory)
• "Productionize this scraper"

Proactive Workflow

This skill follows a systematic 5-phase approach to web scraping, always starting with interactive reconnaissance and ending with production-ready code.

Phase 1: INTERACTIVE RECONNAISSANCE (Critical First Step)