Replacing Fragile CSS Selectors with LLM-Powered Zero-Shot JSON Extraction

TL;DR Zero-shot JSON extraction replaces brittle CSS selectors with Large Language Models that map unstructured web content to predefined schemas semantically. By processing cleaned HTML or Markdown through an LLM context window, scraping pipelines become resilient to UI changes, A/B tests, and dynamic class names. This approach shifts data engineering effort from constant selector maintenance to high-level schema definition, enabling truly agentic data collection. The Selector Maint...