Extract

When to Use This Skill

Activate when the user wants to obtain data from a website:

• "Extract all product prices from this page"
• "Scrape the table of results from ..."
• "Pull the list of authors and titles from arXiv search results"
• "Collect all job listings from this page"
• "Get the data from this dashboard table"
• "Harvest review scores from ..."
• "Download all the links/images/cards from ..."

The deliverable is always two artifacts:

1. Executable Playwright script, a standalone .cjs file that reproduces the extraction without Actionbook at runtime.
2. Extracted data, JSON (default), CSV, or user-specified format written to disk.

Decision Strategy

Use Actionbook as a conditional accelerator, not a mandatory step. The goal is reliable selectors in the shortest path.

User request
  │
  ├─► actionbook search "<site> <intent>"
  │     ├─ Results with Health Score ≥ 70%  ──► actionbook get "<ID>" ──► use selectors
  │     └─ No results / low score  ──► Fallback
  │
  └─► Fallback: actionbook browser open <url>
        ├─ actionbook browser snapshot   (accessibility tree → find selectors)
        ├─ actionbook browser screenshot (visual confirmation)
        └─ manual selector discovery via DOM inspection

Priority order for selector sources:

Priority	Source	When
1	actionbook get	Site is indexed, health score ≥ 70%
2	actionbook browser snapshot	Not indexed or selectors outdated
3	DOM inspection via screenshot + snapshot	Complex SPA / dynamic content