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How to pull a ranked list from a website with one task with Scout

Have Scout open a site, read the page and report the items you asked for, with links.

Authorization notice. Scout is dual-use. Only use it on software, sites and systems you own or have explicit permission to test.

Who it is forAn analyst, researcher or founder who needs the current top items from a public site and wants them pulled without manual browsing.

The problemReading through a site page by page to collect the same few facts is slow and easy to get wrong.

The outcomeA short, sourced answer such as the top three stories with their links and comment counts, plus a replay link to check how Scout got there.

What you need first

  • Node 22 or later
  • An Outcrawl key from outcrawl.ai for the cloud browser (1,000 free credits every month, no card needed)
  • A model service that speaks the standard chat completions API, hosted or running on your own computer
  • Optional: a local browser via `npm i playwright-core && npx playwright install chromium` if you do not use the cloud

Steps

  1. Run npm i @outcrawl/scout in your project folder.
  2. Run export OUTCRAWL_API_KEY=your-outcrawl-key, then set SCOUT_BASE_URL, SCOUT_API_KEY and SCOUT_HANDS_MODEL to your model service.
  3. Save the README's three-step example as task.ts and change the task text to your research question.
  4. Run npx tsx task.ts and read result.data.
  5. Open result.replayUrl and confirm the answer matches what the page shows.

Prompt for your agent

Use the outcrawl/scout repo (TypeScript, npm package @outcrawl/scout). Build a task.ts that opens <target site URL> on Outcrawl's cloud browser and reports <the items you need> with links. Print result.data and result.replayUrl. Verify that result.status is completed and that each reported item appears on the replay.

Caveat. Scout runs model calls against the service you configure, so answer quality depends on the model you choose for the hands job.

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