Pp Scrape Do

Scrape.do — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the scrape-do-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install scrape-do --cli-only
   

2. Verify: scrape-do-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure $GOPATH/bin (or $HOME/go/bin) is on $PATH.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer):

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/developer-tools/scrape-do/cmd/scrape-do-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the install step did not put the binary on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

Every Scrape.do surface — the core scraper plus the whole Google family (search, maps, news, shopping, flights, hotels, trends) — wrapped with an offline SQLite history. The governor estimates credit cost before every call with cost, debits a local ledger from the authoritative cost header with budget, and gates concurrent requests against your plan's live ceiling so an agent swarm never 429s itself or burns the monthly budget. SERPs become queryable history: drift and movers surface rank changes offline with no re-spend.

When to Use This CLI

Reach for this CLI whenever a task needs Google search results, structured SERP data, or any proxied web scrape via Scrape.do — and especially when several agents share one Scrape.do account. Its governor (cost/budget/batch) keeps concurrent usage inside the plan's limits and the monthly credit budget, and its offline SERP history (drift/movers) answers rank-change questions without re-spending credits. Prefer it over raw curl calls when you care about credit cost, concurrency safety, or comparing results over time.

When Not to Use This CLI

Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. No command mutates remote target state. Note, however, that scrape, google, and batch make billed GET requests that consume Scrape.do account credits — use cost to estimate before spending and budget to track and cap spend.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Offline SERP intelligence

• drift — Diff a Google query's two most recent stored SERPs and see exactly which results moved, appeared, or dropped — entirely offline, no credits spent.

  When an agent needs to know whether a ranking changed since last check, this answers it without re-spending a 10-credit SERP call.

  scrape-do-pp-cli drift "best crm software" --json
  

• movers — Scan every tracked query's latest-versus-previous SERP snapshot and surface only the queries whose top positions moved past a threshold.

  Turns hundreds of tracked keywords into a short 'what changed this week' list an agent can act on.

  scrape-do-pp-cli movers --threshold 3 --agent
  

Credit & concurrency governance

• batch — Dispatch a list of URLs or queries through a shared concurrency lease and per-call credit ledger, auto-retrying only the non-billed 429/502/510 classes and stopping before a credit ceiling.

  Lets an agent swarm hammer one account at full speed without 429 storms or blowing the monthly budget.

  scrape-do-pp-cli batch --input urls.txt --max-credits 500 --agent
  

• budget — Attribute spend by mode and query-family from a local ledger debited off the authoritative per-call cost header, joined with cached account state to forecast burn-rate against days remaining.

  Tells an agent how much budget is left and which workloads are eating it before the account hits a hard 401.

  scrape-do-pp-cli budget --agent
  

• cost — Print the exact credit cost a request will incur — accounting for render, super-proxy, Google endpoints, and per-domain overrides — before spending a single credit.

  Lets an agent compare the cost of cheap vs expensive scrape modes and pick the cheapest path that works.

  scrape-do-pp-cli cost --url https://www.linkedin.com/company/example --render --super
  

Command Reference

account — Live Scrape.do account state: subscription status, concurrency allowance and headroom, monthly credit cap and remaining credits.

• scrape-do-pp-cli account — Fetch live account state: IsActive, ConcurrentRequest, RemainingConcurrentRequest, MaxMonthlyRequest

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

scrape-do-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Recipes

Narrow a deep SERP payload for an agent

scrape-do-pp-cli google search "coffee makers" --agent --select organic_results.position,organic_results.title,organic_results.link

The SERP JSON is large and deeply nested; --select with dotted paths returns just rank, title, and link so an agent doesn't burn context parsing the full payload.

Estimate cost before an expensive scrape

scrape-do-pp-cli cost --url https://www.linkedin.com/company/example --render --super

Prints the expected credits (LinkedIn domain override + render + super proxy) with no API spend, so you can choose the cheapest mode that works.

Fan out a URL list under the concurrency cap

scrape-do-pp-cli batch --input urls.txt --max-credits 500 --agent

Dispatches every URL through the shared concurrency lease, retries only the non-billed 429/502/510 classes, and stops before the 500-credit ceiling.

See what ranked-changes happened this week

scrape-do-pp-cli movers --threshold 3 --agent

Compares each tracked query's two latest stored SERPs and lists only the queries whose top positions moved by 3 or more — entirely offline.

Query your stored SERP history with SQL

scrape-do-pp-cli sql "SELECT domain, COUNT(*) c FROM serp_organic GROUP BY domain ORDER BY c DESC LIMIT 10"

Read-only SQL over the local store — share-of-voice by domain across every stored SERP, with no credit spent.

Auth Setup

Scrape.do uses a single API token passed as the token query parameter. Set it as SCRAPEDO_API_KEY in your environment and the CLI never logs the value. The same token drives the core scraper and every Google and Ready-API endpoint.

Run scrape-do-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

Agent Mode

Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color --yes.

• Pipeable — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr

• Filterable — --select keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs:

  scrape-do-pp-cli account --agent --select id,name,status
  

• Previewable — --dry-run shows the request without sending

• Offline-friendly — sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available

• Non-interactive — never prompts, every input is a flag

• Read-only — do not use this CLI for create, update, delete, publish, comment, upvote, invite, order, send, or other mutating requests

Response envelope

Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope:

{
  "meta": {"source": "live" | "local", "synced_at": "...", "reason": "..."},
  "results": <data>
}

Parse .results for data and .meta.source to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable N results (live) summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal AND no machine-format flag (--json, --csv, --compact, --quiet, --plain, --select) is set — piped/agent consumers and explicit-format runs get pure JSON on stdout.

Agent Feedback

When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it:

scrape-do-pp-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive"
scrape-do-pp-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt
scrape-do-pp-cli feedback list --json --limit 10

Entries are stored locally at ~/.local/share/scrape-do-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless SCRAPE_DO_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or SCRAPE_DO_FEEDBACK_AUTO_SEND=true. Default behavior is local-only.

Write what surprised you, not a bug report. Short, specific, one line: that is the part that compounds.

Output Delivery

Every command accepts --deliver <sink>. The output goes to the named sink in addition to (or instead of) stdout, so agents can route command results without hand-piping. Three sinks are supported:

Unknown schemes are refused with a structured error naming the supported set. Webhook failures return non-zero and log the URL + HTTP status on stderr.

Named Profiles

A profile is a saved set of flag values, reused across invocations. Use it when a scheduled agent calls the same command every run with the same configuration - HeyGen's "Beacon" pattern.

scrape-do-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
scrape-do-pp-cli --profile briefing account
scrape-do-pp-cli profile list --json
scrape-do-pp-cli profile show briefing
scrape-do-pp-cli profile delete briefing --yes

Explicit flags always win over profile values; profile values win over defaults. agent-context lists all available profiles under available_profiles so introspecting agents discover them at runtime.

Exit Codes

Argument Parsing

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

1. Empty, help, or --help → show scrape-do-pp-cli --help output
2. Starts with install → ends with mcp → MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above
3. Anything else → Direct Use (execute as CLI command with --agent)

MCP Server Installation

1. Install the MCP server:

   go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/developer-tools/scrape-do/cmd/scrape-do-pp-mcp@latest
   

2. Register with Claude Code:

   claude mcp add scrape-do-pp-mcp -- scrape-do-pp-mcp
   

3. Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which scrape-do-pp-cli If not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill).
2. Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.
3. Execute with the --agent flag:

   scrape-do-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
   

4. If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help: scrape-do-pp-cli <command> --help.