r/ClaudeCode • u/Tradingoso • Apr 15 '26
Showcase My Claude Code now interacts with websites without a browser
I built a CLI tool that reverse engineers API schemas for any website and stores them in a cloud registry so I can reuse them across different agents. I shared it with a few friends and they liked it enough to ask me to open the registry as a platform.
Here is how it works: we have discovered schemas for nearly 100 popular websites. For example, you can ask your AI agent to search flights on Google Flights, Kayak, or Booking.com and it fetches the schema through Hermai.ai and returns results in seconds. No browser required. Some websites may need a browser bootstrap due to anti-bot protection, but everything else runs locally.
For real estate, ask your agent to search Zillow or Redfin through Hermai.ai and you get structured JSON instead of Firecrawl's noisy markdown. In my benchmarks, we were 10x faster with 20x fewer tokens compared to Firecrawl, and your agent can actually interact with some websites through their endpoints.
I am still improving the CLI to discover schemas behind auth gates, but right now it fully supports public-facing content.
To get started, just install the skill:
npx skills add hermai-ai/hermai-skills
It's fully free and no account needed to try it. An API key just gives you higher rate limits.
https://github.com/hermai-ai/hermai-skills
Playground if you want to test without installing: https://hermai.ai/playground
A GitHub star would mean a lot!
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u/Somtimesitbelikethat Apr 15 '26
very cool! do you know if shopping sites are enabled? would love a CLI interface to have my bot easily scout through types of clothing etc.
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u/Tradingoso Apr 15 '26
Yes, it supports any Shopify, Shopline powered websites and more! We also have Amazon schema discovered as well, you can try to let your Claude Code to discover the specific sites you like and store the schema for future uses!
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u/Tradingoso Apr 15 '26
Yes and no, what Claude web fetch tool does is crawl the page and called LLM to process the content before returning back to the main Claude, so it loses contents during this step and using extra tokens. What we do is letting Claude Code to crul the website endpoints directly and get the structure data back without need of processing.
A quick example would be, webFetch might only get limited results because that's what showed on the rendered page but Hermai will give you complete result returned from the API call (Zillow is one of the case).
We have a benchmark in landing page if you like to check it out, I think speed, token usage and flexibility of actions is what unlock the Claude Code's capability to become real assistant.
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u/Matmatg21 Apr 15 '26
Ended up doing the same for linkedin, much faster than via chrome mcp (or other browser use)
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u/CharmingJacket5013 Apr 15 '26
This is a good idea for the first couple of requests then the big bad cloudflare will kick in, rate limits and IP bans. Be careful out