News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Show HN: WrapAPI v2 – Build APIs, scrapers, bots on any website. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: WrapAPI v2 – Build APIs, scrapers, bots on any w... by nicoboo on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:12PM (#14169022)
Kimono shut down on February 29th, 2016 and the cloud service has been discontinued. It only exists as a desktop app now.

Bought by Palantir, they retired in a good way, keeping people's data available for a moment and communicating well.

It was a great product still complicated to get a practical business model.

This WrapAPI v2 is an alternative I think, but I would use them with care as the economical model is unsure and it seems to be really new, still promising! :)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: WrapAPI v2 – Build APIs, scrapers, bots on any w... by codezero on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:35PM (#14169212)
The desktop app + browser plugin still seem to work fine. I've run into a few things that don't quite work well, like pages that have a combination of click-to-paginate and auto-scroll-paginate, but in general, it's good.
[ Parent | on HN ]