TL;DR
Hermes Agent, the local-first autonomous agent from Nous Research, now has a native ScrapeGraphAI integration through the just-scrape skill.
- What is new: Hermes can read any URL and return schema-validated JSON, not markdown soup.
- How: one
npx skills addcommand pulls in thejust-scrapeskill. - The payoff: pair it with Hermes' built-in cron and any scrape becomes a recurring agent that runs on its own.
- Where to start: the step-by-step guide and the Hermes integration docs.
Hermes Agent is good at a lot of things. Reading the live web with structured output was not one of them. That changes today.
We have shipped a ScrapeGraphAI integration for Hermes Agent, Nous Research's local-first agent that turns finished tasks into reusable skills and gets sharper the longer you use it. The integration lives in the just-scrape skill, and it slots straight into the way Hermes already works.
Why this matters
Most agents that "browse" hand you a wall of HTML converted to markdown. You still have to parse it, guess at fields, and write brittle regex that breaks the next time a page changes its layout.
just-scrape takes a different route. You give it a URL and a shape, and it returns JSON that matches that shape every time. Title, price, condition, rating, link. Same fields, same structure, ready for the agent to reason about. That is the gap the Hermes integration closes.
Because Hermes is local-first and remembers results across sessions, the structured output compounds. The agent can compare today's scrape against last week's, persist what changed, and act on the diff.
What you can build
The integration plays well with Hermes' built-in cron scheduler, so the interesting use cases are the ones that run while you are not watching:
- Price monitoring: watch a product search and get a Telegram ping when something drops.
- Competitor tracking: scrape a pricing page on a weekly schedule and diff the tiers.
- Lead enrichment: feed it company URLs and append structured profiles to a sheet.
- Release digests: scrape changelog pages and summarize what shipped each morning.
Each one is the same loop: scrape, persist, compare, alert. Swap the URL and the prompt, and you have a new agent in minutes.
Get started
The full walkthrough, including a live eBay price monitor that pings you on Telegram every three hours, is in our Hermes Agent guide. For the reference setup, see the integration docs.
You will need Hermes installed, Node 18+, and a ScrapeGraphAI API key. The free tier covers the entire setup with credits to spare. One skill install, one prompt, and your agent can read the web.
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