Show HN: I built a Web-Scraper API that is 6-7x more efficient than current ones https://ift.tt/YnRELrZ

Show HN: I built a Web-Scraper API that is 6-7x more efficient than current ones Runo is a web-scraping API that returns typed, structured JSON. You define a schema (field name, type, example value), and Runo fetches the page and returns the data. No HTML, no parsers, no post-processing. Over the past few weeks, I have been building this non stop. Currently, every scraper API out there solves the site fetching problem but left the extraction of the actual data entirely to users. Runo makes that completely disappear. For Runo, I went ahead and added JS rendering, stealth mode, and full LLM extraction to make this a fully functional and capable of scraping most if not all sites. Also, another major problem with current web scrapers is that they charge per feature or bundle them into expensive credit tiers. A single large or JS rendered request can cost 5-75 credits, which means you essentially get nothing out of their plans. Runo is flat per request, no matter the site. At the Scale tier, Runo works out to $0.90 per 1,000 effective requests vs. around $6 for the nearest Firecrawl equivalent. My jaw dropped when I was testing Runo and came across these numbers. I created a free tier that is 500 requests/month, no credit card required. Take it for a spin and let me what can be improved. I would love feedback. https://ift.tt/eUCSVN6 May 14, 2026 at 05:02PM