Launch HN: Dashblock (YC S19) – Turn Any Website into an API

Re:Launch HN: Dashblock (YC S19) – Turn Any Website into an API by awad on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @07:40PM (#21011700)

How do you differentiate from Octoparse?

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Re:Launch HN: Dashblock (YC S19) – Turn Any Website into an API by MCorbani on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:35PM (#21012046)

There is plenty of differences among which 1/ we don't rely on classic selectors (CSS, xPath, etc) which allows us to be resilient to website updates 2/ we offer a simple UI that automates data selection and structuration and 3/ we are available on Windows and MacOS =)

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Re:Launch HN: Dashblock (YC S19) – Turn Any Website into an API by kabacha on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:11PM (#21012909)

> we don't rely on classic selectors (CSS, xPath, etc)

I'm not buying this, does AI process html as text lol? Surely it process it as a tree, right?

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Re:Launch HN: Dashblock (YC S19) – Turn Any Website into an API by HPouillot on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:37PM (#21012069)

We use machine learning to extract the content of the page, which means when the webpage changes you don't have to update your selection like Octoparse.

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