AutomatiQ – Write Automations/Scrapers for any site, just by browsing

Name: AutomatiQ – Write Automations/Scrapers for any site, just by browsing
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Author: stonesteel27

by stonesteel27·Jun 16, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●●SolidBig Brain

Requests-based automation beats browser overhead when the AI can reverse-engineer APIs.

Strengths

•Requests-based scripts run faster and more reliably than Playwright or Puppeteer browser automation.
•Pause-and-guide workflow lets humans correct the agent's reverse-engineering assumptions mid-task.
•One-shot solutions on r/webscraping demonstrates real capability beyond marketing claims.

Weaknesses

•Sixty to ninety percent coverage leaves dynamic JavaScript-heavy sites requiring fallback to browser tools.
•Open-source scraper generators already exist in various forms on GitHub without AI labeling.

Post Description

Hello HN,

I would like to share my project: AutomatiQ

AutomatiQ is an Open-Source Reverse-Engineering AI Agent, that can write requests-based(no browser) automation/scraper scripts on its own, all we have to do is, to normally browse the website once.

This makes it a lot easier to create/fix scripts, all we have to is browse the site. This is not a completly autonomous agent, you can pause, talk, guide the agent on its RE path.

I am aware of the limitations of this approach, but from my own research(please refer the blog for details) up to 60%-90% of websites can be automated/scraped with just requests.

I was able to run this against some popular websites like, bookmyshow, makemytrip. And to test it in the open, I was able to one-shot scraper solutions for 2 problems posted on r/webscraping.

I have written about the journey to create AutomatiQ in the notion site link.

Github: https://github.com/StoneSteel27/AutomatiQ

Demo video of using Automatiq on bookmyshow website to get current running movies, showtimes, seat layout of a particular screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMvAQP5pkM

Thanks for your time, hope you have a great day/night ahead ;)