Build a Proactive Web Scraping Agent

Stop waiting for prompts. Build an autonomous agent with Python, Firecrawl, and Azure OpenAI.

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Firecrawl converts any complex, JS-rendered URL into clean markdown.

Azure OpenAI processes that markdown securely with enterprise SLAs.

We use Python to scrape competitor pricing pages and ask GPT-4o to return strict JSON using response_format={"type": "json_object"}.

Store historical JSON states in Azure Cosmos DB. If the new scrape differs from the database, fire an alert to Slack!

Wrap the script in an Azure Function cron job to run daily without human intervention.