few other options using NodeJs - http://blog.webkid.io/nodejs-scraping-libraries/
Palantir acquires Kimono
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#102Full disclosure: I'm one of the co-founders of ParseHub. For folks looking for an alternative, check out http://www.parsehub.com ParseHub is especially good at dealing with dynamic websites and multidimensional data (arbitrary relationships instead of just rows and columns). Our team would be happy to help you migrate from Kimono. We're bootstrapped and profitable, so we don't have pressure to sell when an offer come…
Parsehub is easily the best hosted craping service on the market. We investigated everybody from kimono to import.io and if you want it done right they are the only option. Furthermore the guarantee of an open source version should they ever decide to close is extremely reassuring.
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#104Two months is a short time but I had sort of expected this given how bad their service of performing last few days. That is why I had started moving to other services.
Its only two weeks, the equivalent of a GFY to their ex-customers.
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#105"Why? As a team, we’re very proud of the product we built, now used by over 125k developers, data scientists and businesses" ... from FAQ: "service will shut down Feb 29, 2016" In fact, they are so proud, they're giving all but ~2 weeks notice to said 125K developers, data scientists, and businesses to migrate off the platform? That is an abysmally small amount of time and if I was a paying customer, i'd be furious.…
They never even tried to charge me money. I would have paid ... happily
me too
Re: Palantir acquires Kimono
#106"Why? As a team, we’re very proud of the product we built, now used by over 125k developers, data scientists and businesses" ... from FAQ: "service will shut down Feb 29, 2016" In fact, they are so proud, they're giving all but ~2 weeks notice to said 125K developers, data scientists, and businesses to migrate off the platform? That is an abysmally small amount of time and if I was a paying customer, i'd be furious.…
"Used by" smells of being a vanity metric - probably signed up users, rather than monthly active. My guess, they weren't commercially successful, and aquihire was the best way out.
Yup. I signed up with an account to play with it once. Never used it after the initial week. I wonder how many others of that 125k were just drive by test drives.
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#107I had a hard time using this product. I was trying to use another developer's APIs but it didn't seem possible. The one positive thing about the announcement, from the FAQ:
Will Palantir (or anyone else) have access to my personal data? No. All of your user data including names, email addresses, passwords and APIs will not be shared with anyone and will be securely purged from our servers on March 31, 2016.
Re: Palantir acquires Kimono
#108"Why? As a team, we’re very proud of the product we built, now used by over 125k developers, data scientists and businesses" ... from FAQ: "service will shut down Feb 29, 2016" In fact, they are so proud, they're giving all but ~2 weeks notice to said 125K developers, data scientists, and businesses to migrate off the platform? That is an abysmally small amount of time and if I was a paying customer, i'd be furious.…
They never even tried to charge me money. I would have paid ... happily
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#110"Why? As a team, we’re very proud of the product we built, now used by over 125k developers, data scientists and businesses" ... from FAQ: "service will shut down Feb 29, 2016" In fact, they are so proud, they're giving all but ~2 weeks notice to said 125K developers, data scientists, and businesses to migrate off the platform? That is an abysmally small amount of time and if I was a paying customer, i'd be furious.…
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