web-scraping (jamditis)
- Data
Pulls data off web pages that don't hand it over cleanly — cascading through fallback fetch strategies and coping with 403s, CAPTCHAs, and rate limits, while validating every URL and treating whatever comes back as untrusted. It is a disciplined way to ACQUIRE raw data from the live web, not a tool for analyzing, charting, or synthesizing what you collect.
A situation it fits
You need a current list of all product pages and prices from a dozen competitor storefronts that don’t offer an API, and some storefronts block automated requests.
5 scenarios in the bank answer to web-scraping (jamditis). The rest are in the game.
Skills it gets confused with
These share a family with web-scraping (jamditis), which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.
- chart-designer (claude-office)Turns a prepared dataset into the right visualization — choosing an appropriate chart type and emitting ready-to-render configs for libraries like ECharts and Chart.js, up to full dashboards. Its job is PRESENTING data visually; it does not scrape sources, clean the data, or compute the statistical findings you decide to show.
- deep-research (firecrawl)Investigates an open-ended question by gathering evidence across many websites and synthesizing a formal, cited report — executive summary, multi-angle findings, contrarian views, and open questions. It is for report-scale SYNTHESIS of a complex topic from the open web, not quick lookups, top-N product lists, or literature reviews over published papers.
- exploratory-data-analysis (k-dense)Profiles a dataset you already have — distributions, missingness, outliers, leakage, and transformation sensitivity — and scaffolds a rigorous EDA report, all computed locally and deterministically without touching the network. It INSPECTS data before you model it; it does not gather the data, draw the finished charts, or make causal or confirmatory claims.
Knowing what web-scraping (jamditis) does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.
Today's sessionweb-scraping (jamditis) is part of jamditis/claude-skills-journalism. Licence: MIT. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.