February 4, 2026
Bots, brawls & webhooks
Turn any website into a live, structured data feed
Set‑it‑and‑forget‑it web updates — fans cheer, skeptics cry “botnet vibes”
TLDR: A new service turns websites into live updates, alerting you only when content actually changes. The crowd split fast: some love the “describe it once and forget it” simplicity, while others blast the ethics of proxy use and “AntiBot bypass,” and question what happens when sites change layouts.
A new tool promises to turn any site into a live data feed that only pings you when real content changes, not when an ad moves. The pitch: describe what you want in plain English, the AI sets it up once, then it switches to fast, cheap scraping, and fires webhooks (instant alerts) with tidy JSON when something actually changes. Free tier for starters; Pro is $29; enterprise adds the spicy stuff like proxy rotation and “AntiBot bypass.”
And that’s where the comments went full soap opera. One dev hyped the dream—“never write a scraper again!”—laying out the three‑step flow like it’s a cooking video, while others joked about holding a funeral for CSS selectors. But the ethics police stormed in: “Residential proxies are sketchy at best,” warned one, questioning whether any of this sits on shady networks. Another side‑eye’d the “AntiBot bypass” line with peak sarcasm about the industry’s morals.
Meanwhile, the reliability crowd asked the big question: if a site’s layout shifts, does the job fail silently? Fans insist the tool’s “semantic” change detection cuts through the junk; skeptics want receipts. And in a surprise cameo, a rival appeared with a self‑hosted tease at mulberry.bot, fueling the open‑vs‑hosted tug‑of‑war. Verdict: half “shut up and take my money,” half “this is how we get sued.”
Key Points
- •Users provide a URL and plain-English data requirements; the service’s AI generates an extraction strategy and selectors.
- •Change detection uses content hashing, structural signatures, and semantic similarity to ignore layout noise and alert only on meaningful content updates.
- •After initial strategy creation, future runs use raw scraping with CSS selectors and DOM parsing, avoiding ongoing LLM costs.
- •Detected changes are POSTed to a webhook URL so pipelines (e.g., vector databases) can update only changed content; no webhook is sent if nothing meaningful changed.
- •Pricing: Free tier (10 strategies), Pro $29/month (60 strategies, unlimited jobs, hourly monitoring, webhooks, priority support), and Enterprise (custom pricing) with antibot bypass, proxy rotation, and custom integrations; 7-day free trial.