Ask HN: Judge My Idea: Converting web pages into APIs and index them

Posted by dokdev 13 hours ago

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I want to build an AI Agent that discovers all the functionality, data etc on a given website, and build an API/MCP/CLI (not sure about the interaction format yet). Then it will index it and serve it over an API/MCP/CLI.

Let's think of hackernews.com as an example. The agent will check the website and will generate functionalities like:

getTopPosts submitPost upvote

etc.

Then it will save and index this page's functions and serve it over a central api.

GET somedomain.com/hackernews-com/getTopPosts

So the idea is to automatically discover and index web pages and make them ready for AI use. An agent can check if the website is indexed and then use it without needing a browser.

What do you think about it ?

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Comment by zoeylee130 8 hours ago

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