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I've wanted to make something like this myself, so thanks and good job!

How does this work? Does it rely on GPT to extract the data or does it actually generate a bunch of selectors? If it's the former, then the results aren't reliable since it can just hallucinate whole results or even just parts.

It uses GPT to extract the data: https://github.com/fetchfox/fetchfox/blob/public/src/lib/scr...

I haven't put together a good test framework yet, but qualitatively, the results are surprisingly good, and hallucinations are fairly low. The prompt tells GPT to say (not available) if needed, which helps.

I'm going to try the "generate selectors" approach as well. If you'd like to learn more or discuss just reach out via email (marcell.ortutay@gmail.com) or discord (https://discord.gg/mM54bwdu59 @ortutay)

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