Build your own lead scraper inside Hermes Agent
Finding that Hermes Agent is a chat assistant rather than a scraper, a user built her own scraper inside it and asked it to return verified leads.
Source
@mahnouor on X · 2026-10-17
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-22.
What they did
Finding that Hermes Agent is a chat assistant rather than a scraper, a user built her own scraper inside it and asked it to return verified leads.
Result (as claimed)
The engine works locally; she is moving it to a VPS.
Tools they used
Cost: Hermes Agent: free plan, paid from $20/mo. Checked 2026-10-14.
Set it up
Pick one goal and metric
For example replies to outreach, ad ideas per week or landing page conversion.
Set up the tools
Open Hermes Agent, Python, VPS. Load your offer, audience and examples of what already works.
Generate, then review
Have the agent research and draft. You approve every message, post or ad before it goes out.
Measure and iterate
Track the metric for a week, keep what works and feed the results back into the prompt.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Build your own lead scraper inside Hermes Agent What the original author did: Finding that Hermes Agent is a chat assistant rather than a scraper, a user built her own scraper inside it and asked it to return verified leads. Reported result (as claimed by the author): The engine works locally; she is moving it to a VPS. Source: https://x.com/mahnouor/status/2111349271505359168 Tools they used: Hermes Agent, Python, VPS Category: Marketing & growth Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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