So I built my own API wrapper · AI Automation Society

So I built my own API wrapper

I jumped on a call a few days ago to help someone in the community with n8n. He shared a problem, a service list that wasn't accessible online.

The solution he found was to take screenshots of all the items and share them with ChatGPT. But I knew of a simpler solution. Scrape the website, turn the results into structured JSON data, and use an API to get it.

Much simpler, and zero manual work. But this was only the start. I then fired up a server on Digital Ocean and made the API public with an API key, so only he could use it for his clients.

Here's the thing, this is super useful for him because now he has live data on all services with no manual work to get it. As I'm writing this I'm building a YouTube comment scraper for an Ecom brand. It will run live on the server and scrape comments every 6 days. Super useful since we don't need to go looking for comments. We scrape all comments, save the link, and comment directly under them.

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