web-data-extraction

web-data-extraction is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,375 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for collecting structured information from web pages, including pages whose content appears only after JavaScript runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps decide between an API, HTML parsing, and a browser; create resilient selectors; handle rendered content; and validate extracted data.
Why use it?
It helps avoid choosing the wrong extraction method and reduces scraper failures caused by changing page structure, missing retries, or excessive requests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps decide between an API, HTML parsing, and a browser; create resilient selectors; handle rendered content; and validate extracted data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nimadorostkar/claude-skills-collection/web-data-extraction
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection --skill web-data-extraction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,375 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.01375
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00687
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00137

Measured 7d ago against content hash a84ad60b936f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-data-extraction scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

2. **Determine whether the content is in the HTML** — `curl` the URL and search for the data. If it is absent, the page renders it with JavaScript and static parsing will return nothing, forever, with no error.
skills/productivity/web-data-extraction/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Data Extraction

Purpose

Get structured data out of web pages reliably. The two questions that determine the entire approach are whether an API exists, and whether the content is rendered by JavaScript — and both are answered in under a minute.

When to Use

  • Extracting structured data from a website.
  • A scraper that returns empty results or breaks constantly.
  • Deciding between static parsing and a headless browser.
  • Building a repeatable data-collection pipeline.

Capabilities

  • Approach selection: API, static HTML, or browser rendering.
  • Resilient selector strategy.
  • JavaScript-rendered content.
  • Rate limiting, retries, and politeness.
  • Detecting and handling structure changes.

Inputs

  • The target pages and the data required.
  • Whether the site has an API, documented or otherwise.
  • Volume and frequency.

Outputs

  • Structured, validated data.
  • A scraper that fails loudly when the page changes, rather than silently returning nothing.

Workflow

  1. Look for an API first — Check the documentation, then check the network tab. Very often the page itself calls a JSON endpoint, and that endpoint is stable, structured, and far easier to use than the HTML.
  2. Determine whether the content is in the HTMLcurl the URL and search for the data. If it is absent, the page renders it with JavaScript and static parsing will return nothing, forever, with no error.
  3. Choose the tool accordingly — Static HTML: an HTTP client and a parser. JavaScript-rendered: a headless browser. Do not use a browser when you do not need one; it is fifty times slower.
  4. Write resilient selectors — Anchor on stable attributes (data-*, an id, a semantic element), not on a generated class name that changes with every deploy.
  5. Be polite — Rate limit, identify yourself, respect robots.txt, and cache. A scraper that hammers a site is both rude and likely to be blocked.
  6. Validate the output — A scraper that silently returns zero rows because the page changed is worse than one that crashes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 128 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A a84ad60b936f

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web-data-extraction is a skill published in the GitHub repository nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection (26 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,375 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.