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CrawlForge fixes test suite after 28 tools fail on live websites

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The CrawlForge team discovered significant flaws in their automated testing suite, which had been passing tests based on outdated or non-existent website selectors rather than actual live data. To address this, they ran 28 of their web scraping tools against real websites like Amazon, Wikipedia, and GitHub. This process led to the identification and fixing of numerous defects, resulting in six new releases of their tool and four releases of a related package. The team has since refocused their scraping templates to prioritize structured data published by websites, such as JSON endpoints, rather than relying on HTML parsing or LLM-generated data. AI

IMPACT This update improves the reliability of web scraping tools, which are foundational for data collection in AI development and research.

RANK_REASON The article details improvements and releases for a specific software tool, CrawlForge MCP, rather than a novel model release or significant industry-wide event.

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CrawlForge fixes test suite after 28 tools fail on live websites

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Simon ·

    We stopped trusting our test suite and pointed 28 tools at the real web

    <p>Every one of our <code>amazon-product</code> tests passed. The tool returned <code>null</code> for the price currency, <code>null</code> for the rating, <code>null</code> for every image, and the string <code>"Brand: Amazon"</code> where the brand should have been.</p> <p>Noth…

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