Re:Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes...
by vkuprin on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:36PM
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Thanks, that’s a really good question. Site Spy uses a real browser flow, so it generally handles JS-rendered pages much better than simple HTML-only polling tools. In practice, the trickier cases tend to be sites with aggressive anti-bot protection or messy login/session flows rather than JS itself. I’m trying to make those limitations clearer so people don’t just hit a vague failure and feel let down
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Re:Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes...
by rozumem on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:38AM
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Curious how you're thinking about getting around anti-bot protection. I scrape a lot and I've noticed many highly trafficked sites investing in anti-bot measures recently, with the rise of AI browsers and such. Still, cool idea, congrats on the launch.
Re:Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes...
by vkuprin on Thursday March 12, 2026 @08:35AM
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I'm planning to add proxy rotation across different regions to help with geo-restricted content and rate limiting. Anti-bot is an arms race though — some sites just can't be monitored without solving a captcha, which isn't something I'm trying to do. Focused on making the common cases work well rather than promising to bypass everything.