CodeTheft - AI-Powered Code Scraping & Enhancement Tool 🚀

CodeTheft is a cutting-edge web scraping tool specifically designed for developers to extract, filter, and enhance code from web pages using advanced AI capabilities. Perfect for learning, research, and code discovery.

✨ Features Stealthy Code Scraping - Extract raw code from any webpage without detection

AI-Powered Enhancement - Clean and improve scraped code with Gemini AI

Precision Filtering - Isolate only the relevant code snippets

Multi-Source Support - Works with GitHub, GitLab, StackOverflow, and more

Export Options - Download enhanced code in multiple formats

Rate Limit Bypass - Intelligent request throttling to avoid blocks

🛠 Tech Stack Deep Dive Core Scraping Engine Browserless API - Headless browser automation for scraping dynamic content

Bypasses anti-bot measures

Renders JavaScript-heavy pages

Simulates human-like browsing patterns

Cheerio - Lightweight jQuery implementation for server-side DOM manipulation

Blazing fast HTML parsing

CSS-selector based element targeting

Efficient code extraction from raw HTML

AI Enhancement Google Gemini AI - State-of-the-art AI for code analysis and enhancement

Code cleanup and formatting

Syntax error detection

Performance optimization suggestions

Documentation generation

Backend Node.js (v20) - JavaScript runtime for high-performance scraping

Express.js - Minimalist web framework for API endpoints

Axios - HTTP client for API requests

Rate Limiter - Intelligent request throttling to avoid IP bans

Frontend Next.js - Interactive UI

Shadcn - Modern component library

Utility Libraries Puppeteer Extra - Enhanced scraping capabilities

Stealth Plugin - Avoid fingerprinting detection

User-Agent Rotator - Randomize request signatures

🚀 Getting Started Prerequisites Node.js v18+ Next.js v15

Browserless API key

Google Gemini API key

Installation bash

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/ghosttrozan/codetheft.git

Install dependencies

cd codetheft npm install

Set up environment variables

cp .env.example .env

Add your API keys to .env

Start the server

npm run dev

Custom scraping patterns

AI enhancement parameters

Rate limit configuration

Proxy rotation setup

⚠️ Legal Disclaimer CodeTheft is intended for educational purposes and legitimate code research only. Users are responsible for complying with:

Website terms of service

Copyright laws

Fair use principles

Always obtain proper authorization before scraping any website.

Made with ❤️ (and a bit of mischief) by Alkaif

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