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MCorbani
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Comment #26251203
Love it, go weweb.io!!
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Comment #24231093
Best tool ever for remote / pair programming - debugging gets (almost) fun thanks to you guys :)
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Comment #21012631
Indeed, amazon has different layouts and can be tricky. For now, our model is resilient to minor changes but we are working on improving it - amazon.com.au look like a good test ;-…
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Comment #21012368
Thanks =)
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Comment #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 a…
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Comment #21011655
Not yet, but we are working on it =)
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Comment #21011091
Thanks! Let us know if you have any question or feedback =)
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Comment #21010820
Good point! That's why our plan is to focus on use-cases that create value for websites too, in order to partner up with them.
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Comment #21009845
Good question. However, that would require websites' users to validate a Captcha every time they navigate it, which is not optimal in terms of user experience.
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Comment #21009760
We don't crawl the websites yet. However, you can create an API on a given webpage and gather data from similar webpages on the same website by calling the API with the new URL.
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Comment #21009668
UiPath and others RPA actors allow their users to mainly automate local processes on Windows. We are cross-platform and focusing on the web, which makes us useful for other use-cas…
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Comment #21009470
That's a good point. Our app is validated by Apple on MacOS and the Windows version will be soon. Also, we have thousands of users and you can google us : no claim for spam at all …
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Comment #21009354
No you read it correctly : by creating an account today, you will have 10k FREE API calls =)
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Comment #21009322
Yes! we have been quite occupied since the end of YC but we plan on releasing it soon =) Please ping us at hello@dashblock.com and we will inform you when the version is live!
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Comment #21009065
Definitely =) Let us know know if we can be of any help!
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Comment #21009042
Agreed, some websites are really reticent about scraping. But let's think about Google, they are scraping the whole web regardless of the ToS of the websites, so it all boils down …
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Comment #21008788
Thank you !
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Comment #21008316
Correct! Also, Diffbot extracts automatically generic entities (e.g. product name and price, comments, etc) while we let our users choose exactly the data they want on any webpage …
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Comment #21007858
Thank you! Kimono Labs built an amazing product and has been finally acquired by Palantir. The main difference between us comes from our machine learning model that gives stability…