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I was a huge fan of Kimono as well. You can't edit an API for now but we will add this feature in the next release.

Thanks for your feedback !

Thanks for your feedback !

Thanks ! You can create an API for any website (news website included) from our Mac/Windows software and you can access this API from anywhere. It runs on our servers and you can q…

Thanks for you feedback ! We talked to the co-founders of Kimono Labs and their approach was a bit different. Our goal is to automate processes on the Internet and scraping is just…

Thanks ! 1. It changes the user experience but the underlying model stay the same and will allow our user to record session with inputs and clicks in next releases. 2. Indeed, if y…

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.

You have 10k API calls when you sign up and 1k per month after that. Does it answer your question ?

We did :) It works on all kind of pages. You just have to set it up on one page and it will work on all similar pages of the website. Did you have in mind to train a model to recog…

Ahah, great ! The minimum required version is 10.10 (Yosemite) If you want to do that on the web, you'll have to render the page in an iframe to select the content and most website…

We don't provide an API to manage other API yet, but this inception use-case is interesting. Could you specify what your app would like to do ? We render the Javascript of the page…

We don't use sophisticated methods for now, we just use a serverless architecture, so IP changes at each invocation. Feel free to contact us at hello@dashblock.com if it doesn't wo…

It doesn't require Artificial General Intelligence, with enough training data (crowdsourced data and human-edited metadata like JSON-LD or RFD), we can classify automatically the a…

Yep, that's our plan :)

Thanks for the advice, it makes a lot of sense !

Thanks Radu !

Indeed, we are rendering the whole page with the javascript, that's why it takes longer than a curl. For now, it's especially useful for dynamic pages but we also plan on supportin…

Hey HN, We're Hugues and Max, co-founders of Dashblock ( https://dashblock.com ). Dashblock turns any website into an API. People use us to access product information, news content…