Next.js Documentation Scraper - Complete Build Roadmap

🎯 Project Overview

Build a full-featured web application that scrapes documentation sites, processes content, and generates multiple export formats (PDF, Markdown, EPUB) with advanced filtering and formatting capabilities.

🏗️ Architecture Overview

Tech Stack

• Frontend: Next.js 14+ (App Router), React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui
• Backend: Next.js API Routes, Edge Runtime where possible
• Scraping: Puppeteer/Playwright for JavaScript rendering, Cheerio for HTML parsing
• PDF Generation: React PDF or Puppeteer PDF generation
• Database: PostgreSQL with Prisma ORM (for job queue and scraped content)
• Queue System: BullMQ with Redis or Inngest for background jobs
• Storage: AWS S3 or Cloudflare R2 for generated files
• Authentication: NextAuth.js (optional, for multi-user support)

📁 Project Structure

doc-scraper/
├── app/
│   ├── api/
│   │   ├── scrape/
│   │   │   ├── start/route.ts
│   │   │   ├── status/[jobId]/route.ts
│   │   │   └── cancel/[jobId]/route.ts
│   │   ├── export/
│   │   │   ├── pdf/route.ts
│   │   │   ├── markdown/route.ts
│   │   │   └── epub/route.ts
│   │   └── webhook/
│   │       └── complete/route.ts
│   ├── dashboard/
│   │   ├── page.tsx
│   │   ├── jobs/[id]/page.tsx
│   │   └── settings/page.tsx
│   ├── layout.tsx
│   └── page.tsx
├── components/
│   ├── scraper/
│   │   ├── ScrapeForm.tsx
│   │   ├── JobProgress.tsx
│   │   ├── FilterSettings.tsx
│   │   └── ExportOptions.tsx
│   ├── ui/ (shadcn components)
│   └── layouts/
├── lib/
│   ├── scraper/
│   │   ├── browser-manager.ts
│   │   ├── content-extractor.ts
│   │   ├── url-validator.ts
│   │   └── rate-limiter.ts
│   ├── export/
│   │   ├── pdf-generator.ts
│   │   ├── markdown-converter.ts
│   │   └── epub-builder.ts
│   ├── queue/
│   │   └── scrape-queue.ts
│   └── db/
│       ├── prisma.ts
│       └── schema.prisma
├── workers/
│   └── scrape-worker.ts
└── types/
    └── index.ts

🚀 Implementation Roadmap

Phase 1: Project Setup & Core Infrastructure (Week 1)

Day 1-2: Initial Setup

In Cursor:

1. Create new Next.js project with TypeScript

   npx create-next-app@latest doc-scraper --typescript --tailwind --app