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Claude Code Built A Web Scraper: No More $249 SaaS

Creator Magic· 226K subscribers

28d ago · English audio

Residential proxies from $1/GB, pay as you go 👉 https://mrc.fm/dataimpulse AI told Pieter Levels he couldn't build his own scraper. He built it anyway, for about $1 a month. So I built mine with Claude Code: Drone, a polite web scraper that reads robots.txt, goes one page at a time and only fetches public pages. From a datacentre server it got 33% of 100 AI tool sites. Through residential proxies it got over 90%,…

5.6×Score at discovery
91.8KViews
16.4KMedian · 25 videos

Outlier score

This score was measured on Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:57:41 GMT. Current view counts may differ.

91.7K views ÷ a 16.4K baseline = 5.6×. Compared with 25 earlier videos from the same channel, matching the format recorded at scoring time. Older-upload baseline: reference videos had at least as long to gain views. This comparison is not age-matched.

YouTube snapshot: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:23:00 GMT. Counters may have changed.

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Channel-balanced percentile: 78

Comparison details

134 videos from 81 other channels, with each channel weighted equally. Same format and language, with 100,000–999,999 subscribers. Observed at 673 hours after publication, within ±48 hours.

This describes the collected sample, not all of YouTube. Updated Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:58:06 GMT.

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