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# seleniumbase-website-scraper
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Private A2A agent for compliant, authorized website scraping with SeleniumBase/browser automation where available.
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## Safety policy
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Use this agent only for authorized scraping of public or user-owned sites. The agent must not bypass, solve, defeat, or evade CAPTCHAs, anti-bot protections, login gates, paywalls, `robots.txt`, ToS restrictions, or access controls. If a CAPTCHA, anti-bot challenge, login wall, paywall, or access-control indicator is detected, the run stops and returns a manual-intervention/blocked status.
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The agent does not use stealth/undetected-browser modes, CAPTCHA solvers, proxy rotation, credential injection, or access-control circumvention.
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## Skills
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### scrape_website
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Inputs:
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- url — absolute http or https URL.
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- selectors — mapping of output field names to CSS selectors.
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- max_pages — maximum same-origin pages to visit.
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- wait_seconds — wait after page open before capture/extraction.
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- output_format — json or csv.
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- headless — toggle browser headless mode.
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- user_agent — optional custom single-line user agent.
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- respect_robots — when true, checks robots.txt before fetch and pagination.
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- rate_limit_seconds — polite delay between pagination requests.
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- screenshot — save PNG screenshots for visited pages.
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Outputs:
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- status — ok, invalid_input, blocked_by_robots_txt, manual_intervention_required, browser_runtime_unavailable, or error.
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- items — extracted records.
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- saved_paths — output files under outputs/seleniumbase-website-scraper/.
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- warnings — safety, robots, selector, browser, or runtime warnings.
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- screenshots — screenshot file paths when requested.
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- pages_visited and html_captures.
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### iterate_scrape_goal (new)
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An LLM-powered planner that iterates scrapes until a goal is satisfied or a safety/stop condition occurs.
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- goal — natural-language target (e.g., "collect at least 50 product cards with title, price, href").
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- url — start page (absolute http/https). Same-origin only for all iterations.
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- selectors — optional initial CSS selector map (defaults to {"title": "title"}).
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- min_items — stop when this many items have been collected.
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- max_iterations — planner budget (default 5).
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- per_pass_max_pages — pages per scrape pass (default 1, capped by agent config).
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- Other browser and safety flags mirror scrape_website.
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Behavior and guarantees:
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- Uses platform-provided ctx.llm with strict system prompt that forbids any evasion of CAPTCHAs, anti-bot, logins, paywalls, or robots.txt.
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- Planner can only propose same-origin URLs and CSS selectors. Cross-origin plans are rejected.
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- Each pass runs the deterministic scrape_website skill; stops on any challenge or robots block.
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- Produces a compact decisions trail and saves a small manifest under outputs/seleniumbase-website-scraper/.
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## Selector syntax
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Default extraction returns visible text:
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```json
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{"title": "h1", "summary": ".article-summary"}
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```
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Supported suffixes:
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- ::text — visible text.
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- ::html — inner HTML.
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- ::attr(name) — attribute extraction, e.g. a.card::attr(href).
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Special pagination selector field names are not emitted as data fields and are used to find the next page:
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- next
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- _next
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- __next__
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- pagination_next
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- next_page
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Pagination is restricted to the same scheme and host as the start URL.
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## Example payloads
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Simple one-pass scrape:
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```json
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{
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"url": "https://example.com/articles",
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"selectors": {
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"headline": "h2.article-title",
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"links": "a.article-link::attr(href)",
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"next": "a[rel='next']::attr(href)"
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},
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"max_pages": 3,
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"wait_seconds": 2,
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"output_format": "json",
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"headless": true,
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"respect_robots": true
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}
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```
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Iterative planner:
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```json
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{
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"goal": "collect at least 30 product tiles with name, price, link",
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"url": "https://example.com/store",
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"selectors": {"name": ".tile .name", "price": ".tile .price", "href": ".tile a::attr(href)"},
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"min_items": 30,
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"max_iterations": 4,
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"per_pass_max_pages": 1,
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"respect_robots": true
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}
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```
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## Smoke test payload
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Use this payload to verify the scraper against the public demo site https://quotes.toscrape.com/ while respecting robots.txt. It should return parseable JSON, quote items, a saved JSON file, an HTML capture path, and screenshot paths only when screenshot is true.
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```json
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{
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"url": "https://quotes.toscrape.com/",
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"selectors": {
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"quotes": ".quote",
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"text": ".text",
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"author": ".author",
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"tags": ".tag"
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},
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"max_pages": 1,
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"wait_seconds": 1,
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"output_format": "json",
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"headless": true,
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"user_agent": "",
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"respect_robots": true,
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"rate_limit_seconds": 1,
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"screenshot": false
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}
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```
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## Deployment notes
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The agent declares a larger runtime budget because browser work can be CPU/memory intensive. Actual browser execution is performed through the workspace sandbox helper using the SeleniumBase image, so files written under /workspace/outputs/seleniumbase-website-scraper/ are durable workspace outputs.
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