When the Scraper Breaks Itself: Building a...

A Python sidecar that watches your scraper fail, calls a local LLM, and fixes the problem before your users notice. The Problem with Fragile Selectors Production web scrapers have a hidden fragility: they depend on CSS selectors and XPath expressions authored against a snapshot of a third-party website's DOM. The moment the site redesigns its layout, renames a class, or restructures a table, those selectors silently return nothing — or, worse, return the wrong data. For a surf alert system that