Extractor vs Insomnia

“Schema-driven extraction with LLM fallback is exactly right. Traditional scrapers break on every site redesign — Extractor adapts because it understands the content semantically. The TypeScript-first approach with strong typing on outputs is chef's kiss for building data pipelines.”

“Clean UI, open source, and supports every protocol. The git-based sync is useful for teams.”

“LLM extraction costs add up fast at scale. But for the use cases where you need it — scraping sites with unpredictable layouts, extracting from pages that change frequently — the reliability improvement over CSS selectors easily justifies the token spend.”

“Lighter than Postman and open source. For most API development needs, it's the right balance of features.”

“I have been using this to pull structured data from competitor landing pages and product directories. The schema definition is intuitive and the extraction quality is surprisingly consistent even across wildly different page designs.”

“Functional but the UI isn't remarkable. It gets the job done without inspiring joy.”