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Show HN: Runo – open-source web scraping that returns typed JSON

Runo is an open-source web scraping tool that returns typed JSON. The creator originally released it as closed-source but couldn't cover the costs, so they open-sourced the project instead of shutting it down.

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- This is a "Show HN" post on Hacker News, a community where tech founders and developers share their projects for feedback. The title format signals the author is presenting something they built. - The project, Runo, is an open-source tool for web scraping — automatically extracting data from websites. Its key differentiator is that it returns data as "typed JSON" (structured, predictable data with defined fields and types like strings, numbers, booleans), rather than raw HTML or loosely formatted text that developers then have to manually parse. - The author originally built this as a paid/commercial service but shut it down and released the code for free because running the infrastructure became too expensive. This is a common pattern in the indie developer world: a solo project fails to achieve profitability but the author doesn't want the work to go to waste.

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