arXiv:2603.29161v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modern web scraping struggles with dynamic, interactive websites that require more than static HTML parsing. Current methods are often brittle and require manual customization for each site. To address this, we introduce Webscraper, a framework designed to handle the challenges of modern, dynamic web applications. It leverages a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) to autonomously navigate interactive interfaces, invoke specialized tools, and perform structured data extraction in environments where traditional scrapers are ineffective. Webscraper utilizes a structured five-stage prompting procedure and a set of custom-built tools to navigate and extract data from websites following the common “index-and-content” architecture. Our experiments, conducted on six news websites, demonstrate that the full Webscraper framework, equipped with both our guiding prompt and specialized tools, achieves a significant improvement in extraction accuracy over the baseline agent Anthropic’s Computer Use. We also applied the framework to e-commerce platforms to validate its generalizability.
When to Call an Apple Red: Humans Follow Introspective Rules, VLMs Don’t
arXiv:2604.06422v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding when Vision-Language Models (VLMs) will behave unexpectedly, whether models can reliably predict their own behavior, and if models adhere