Product Overview: Horseman
Horseman is an advanced, endlessly configurable crawling companion designed to assist a variety of professionals, including frontend developers, performance analysts, digital agencies, accessibility experts, and SEO specialists. Here’s a detailed look at what Horseman does and its key features:
Purpose
Horseman is a powerful tool that enables users to crawl and analyze web pages with high precision and customization. It is designed to help users extract specific information, perform detailed analyses, and automate various web interaction tasks.Key Features
Web Crawling with GPT3.5
Horseman integrates with GPT3.5, allowing users to crawl the web and analyze page content using prompts. You can combine any piece of page data or send the entire page to GPT for comprehensive analysis.AI Helper
For users who are not familiar with JavaScript, Horseman offers an AI helper that can create snippets based on the information you want to extract. This feature simplifies the process of interacting with websites and automating tasks.Insights Feature
The Insights feature provides a deeper exploration of web pages, offering fully explorable reports that show statistics about the number of failing or passing pages per snippet. This helps in identifying and resolving issues efficiently.Extensive Snippet Library
Horseman comes with over 120 built-in snippets that cater to various needs, such as detecting overflowing elements, analyzing the sentiment of h2 headings, and intelligently extracting content using Mozilla’s readability.js. Users can also describe the information they need and let AI write the snippet for them.Cross-Platform Compatibility
Horseman is available for Windows, Mac OS (Intel and M1/M2), and Linux, making it accessible across different operating systems.Performance and Content Analysis
Some notable snippets include:- Largest Contentful Image Priority: Detects when the Largest Contentful Paint has been mistakenly loaded with a lower priority.
- h2 Sentiment: Analyzes the sentiment of h2 headings to optimize them.
- Overflowing Elements: Detects and diagnoses elements that overflow the page and cause unwanted scrolling.
- Summarize Content: Summarizes page content with GPT and generates new relevant meta descriptions.