What Is Scrapling?
Scrapling is an adaptive web scraping engine integrated into OpenClaw as a skill. Unlike traditional scrapers that rely on fixed CSS selectors or XPath queries, Scrapling uses intelligent content detection to find and extract data from web pages — even when the page structure changes.
This makes it ideal for AI agents that need to pull data from websites that update their layouts frequently, such as news sites, e-commerce platforms, and social media pages.
How Scrapling Works with AI Agents
When an OpenClaw agent is equipped with the Scrapling skill, it can scrape any website on demand. The agent decides what data it needs based on the user's request, sends the URL to Scrapling, and receives structured content in return.
For example, a Research Analyst agent might scrape competitor websites for pricing data, a Real Estate Agent might monitor property listing sites for new entries, and a Social Media Manager might extract trending topics from news aggregators.
Anti-Bot Bypass and Dynamic Content
Modern websites use anti-bot measures including CAPTCHAs, rate limiting, and JavaScript rendering. Scrapling handles these challenges with browser-level rendering, request fingerprint rotation, and intelligent retry logic.
Dynamic single-page applications (SPAs) that load content via JavaScript are fully supported. Scrapling renders pages in a headless browser environment before extracting content, ensuring that AJAX-loaded data is captured.
Use Cases
Common use cases for Scrapling-enabled agents include:
- Competitive intelligence — Monitor competitor pricing, features, and announcements
- Lead generation — Extract contact information from business directories
- News monitoring — Aggregate and summarize articles from multiple sources
- Price tracking — Track product prices across e-commerce platforms
- Regulatory monitoring — Watch for changes in legal and compliance documents
By combining Scrapling with other OpenClaw skills like cron jobs and webhooks, you can build agents that automatically scrape data on a schedule and deliver reports to your preferred channel. Ready to try it? Deploy a Telegram bot with Scrapling enabled in under 60 seconds.