Palantir acquires Kimono
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Palantir acquires Kimono
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Re: Palantir acquires Kimono
#2Man, this is disappointing. No way to trust any cloud offering, more sooner than later the service is discontinued.
Re: Palantir acquires Kimono
#3Disappointing. Was my goto service as it was a joy to use and always seemed to work. Wish they would follow the Parse lead and release something open source. Desktop doesn't really cut it for API use...
Re: Palantir acquires Kimono
#4As someone who used Kimono a few times before the closure...this announcement does not surprise me at all.
The target demographic was developers who were too lazy to write simple scrapers for a given predefined use case. However, scraping most modern websites is not simple, and requires a lot of code to ensure the correct HTML elements are scraped and the data is transformed correctly...which defeats the purpose of using Kimono.
Kimono joining Palantir was likely an acquihire, especially since the core service was permissively free.
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#6As someone who used Kimono a few times before the closure...this announcement does not surprise me at all. The target demographic was developers who were too lazy to write simple scrapers for a given predefined use case. However, scraping most modern websites is not simple, and requires a lot of code to ensure the correct HTML elements are scraped and the data is transformed correctly...which defeats the purpose of u…
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#7Man, this is disappointing. No way to trust any cloud offering, more sooner than later the service is discontinued.
I was just thinking the same. I rely on Kimono for a few of my sites, so I'm looking around at what I could use instead. The first I thought of is http://import.io/, http://cloudscrape.com, or https://phantomjscloud.com/site/index.html, but I fear the same might happen to whichever I pick.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to run something similar on my own server?
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#8"access to the world’s most important data problems"
I'm not sure how to put this, but I've used Palantir's products in a couple different warzones. I can't imagine they're not pointing those tools at everyday Americans. In fact I'm certain of it (just read FedBizOpps postings from the DHS and DoD). I'm sure most of the people working there have no idea, but I'm also sure there are some truly bad people working for that company. Man, we really need to regulate this a lot better.
Re: Palantir acquires Kimono
#9Man, this is disappointing. No way to trust any cloud offering, more sooner than later the service is discontinued.
Perhaps a viable alternative to using cloud services would be roll-your-own OSS packages
Re: Palantir acquires Kimono
#10As someone who used Kimono a few times before the closure...this announcement does not surprise me at all. The target demographic was developers who were too lazy to write simple scrapers for a given predefined use case. However, scraping most modern websites is not simple, and requires a lot of code to ensure the correct HTML elements are scraped and the data is transformed correctly...which defeats the purpose of u…
"too lazy" seems like an unfair characterization. If a service lets you do what you want faster, why not use it? I'm not familiar with Kimono, but if you can just rip it out and replace it with your own code later, why not?