Show HN: Relinos – Turn Any Website into a REST API (Open-Source)
Hey HN, I made Relinos, an open-source programmable browser that lets you turn websites into reusable APIs. The idea is to make browser interactions and extractions easy to create, export, and share. I'd like to build a community of shared website automations that anyone can understand and maintain. Isn't this just Playwright? No, Relinos runs locally and exposes a language-agnostic REST API. It handles much of the underlying complexity and common problems for you. This includes: - Site actions
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2026-11-10 13:00:31.075Z
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Repository: realsirjoe/relinos. Source account: Hey HN, I made Relinos, an open-source programmable browser that lets you turn websites into reusable APIs. The idea is to make browser interactions and extractions easy to create, export, and share. I'd like to build a community of shared website automations that anyone can understand and maintain. Isn't this just Playwright? No, Relinos runs locally and exposes a language-agnostic REST API. It handles much of the underlying complexity and common problems for you. This includes: - Site actions
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Source votes: 1 votes (Nov 10, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication) Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Wanim – Embed interactive 3Blue1Brown-style animations in your blog” (Show HN, Nov 10, 2026); “Show HN: Tokspur a 3x faster open source inference engine for Macs” (Show HN, Nov 10, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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