I'm Solomon, founder of DivParser — an AI-powered web extraction API. I launched it a few months ago, got users testing it, and ended up with zero paying customers.

This is the honest story of what went wrong, what I rebuilt, and what I discovered along the way.

What DivParser Does

You give DivParser a URL or raw HTML. You describe the data you want in plain English (or use Nestlang, our typed schema language). It returns clean, structured JSON — no selectors, no regex, no scraper maintenance.

curl -X POST "https://api.divparser.com/v1/scrapes" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "url": "https://example.com/products", "schema": "Extract product name, price and availability", "pageType": "LISTING" }'

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You get back:

{ "results" : [ { "name" : "Widget Pro" , "price" : 49.99 , "availability" : true }, { "name" : "Widget Lite" , "price" : 19.99 , "availability" : true } ] }

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