This is cool, Import.io started doing a similar thing too a few years ago: http://import.io/.
Show HN: Turn any website into an API HackMIT 2013
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#12Nice! Just got the back end up and running on my OSX machine.pointed the chrome plugin to my localhost. works like charm.
Though this looks similar to eBay's ql.io(open source) , I feel this is much simpler.
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#13So, what’s the advantage over YQL? http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
it looks like yql is only for some sites and you need the sites api key, and this is any site "whether they like it or not" and it takes 2 clicks. cool project thought about doing this myself, gl!.
No, you can use YQL for any site that you want and even combine multiple queries into a single one. I don’t see any reasons why this project needs to exist…