scraper-brief

scraper-brief is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,598 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning document for collecting specified information from websites or web pages with a scraper, a program that gathers data automatically.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brief a developer on website data collection, including page scope, pagination, login barriers, and update needs.
Why use it?
It clarifies what to collect, how to organize it, and which technical, legal, or ethical issues the developer must consider.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to brief a developer on website data collection, including page scope, pagination, login barriers, and update needs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/scraper-brief
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill scraper-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,598 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00055 $0.01598
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00799
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00160

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5804749337aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scraper-brief scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 12d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/data-journalism/investigation/scraper-brief/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scraper Brief

What This Skill Does

Writes a clear, technical brief describing exactly what data needs to be collected from a website or set of web pages, how it should be structured, and what edge cases and legal/ethical considerations apply — for handoff to a developer or data team.

When To Use This Skill

  • You have identified a publicly accessible website containing data you need in bulk and want to brief a developer to collect it
  • You need to document what a scraper should collect before commissioning or building the tool
  • You want to think through the data structure, edge cases, and update frequency requirements before any technical work begins
  • You need a record of the collection methodology for editorial and legal transparency

What You Need To Provide

Required: The URL or website description. What data you need — the specific fields visible on the page. The scope — how many pages or records you expect to collect. The reason you need it (news investigation, research, ongoing monitoring). Optional: How frequently the data needs to be updated; whether pagination, search filters, or login walls are involved; any known technical obstacles (JavaScript rendering, anti-scraping measures); the output format you need.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Maps the required data fields from the description of the source page, identifying what is structured (tables, clearly labelled fields) versus what requires extraction from running text.
  2. Documents the scope, pagination, and any known complexity (dynamic content, filters, session requirements).
  3. Produces a structured brief covering: data source, fields to collect, output schema, scope and frequency, known technical challenges, and legal/ethical considerations.

Output Format

A technical brief (400–600 words) structured under six headings: Data Source, Fields to Collect (with example values), Output Schema, Scope and Frequency, Technical Considerations, and Legal and Ethical Notes. Tone: clear, precise, technical — written to be acted on by a developer. Includes a simple example row showing the expected output structure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 114 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 5804749337aa

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scraper-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (30 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,598 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.