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Palantir acquires Kimono

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Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by LS1894 »

drglitch wrote: post #13

"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.…

The desktop download softens the blow somewhat... ...except it's not possible to run APIs on schedule - which is exactly what I used it for. Gutted.

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by tn13 »

davidbarker wrote: post #7
marvel_boy wrote: post #2

Man, 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?

Download the Kimono desktop tool for Mac and unzip it. It is nothing but a nodejs based web application.

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by vrathee »

drglitch wrote: post #13

"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.…

You guys need replacement? We will be launching the web version of Data Scraping Studio on same day(Feb, 29 2015)

http://www.datascraping.co

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by henrik1409 »

drglitch wrote: post #13

"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.…

Dear Kimono Users

We at CloudScrape.com are happy to welcome you onboard our platform - you get 20 hours of scraping runtime for free and the ability to navigate much more complex websites, opening up tons more opportunities then you've had previously. And we're here to stay :)

Kind regards, Henrik Hofmeister, CTO, Co-Founder @ CloudScrape.com

http://cloudscrape.com

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by ultimatejman »

kumarski wrote: post #39

Relevant Scraping/Crawling Lead Mining Tools: http://grabby.io http://fullcontact.com http://emailhunter.co http://clearbit.com http://toofr.com http://import.io http://kimonolabs.com http://apifier.com (favs) http://elink.club http://www.eliteproxyswitcher.com/ - ;)

i have found import.io to be pretty good

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by ddebernardy »

kumarski wrote: post #39

Relevant Scraping/Crawling Lead Mining Tools: http://grabby.io http://fullcontact.com http://emailhunter.co http://clearbit.com http://toofr.com http://import.io http://kimonolabs.com http://apifier.com (favs) http://elink.club http://www.eliteproxyswitcher.com/ - ;)

Three more:

https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia/ (our open source equivalent of Kimonolabs)

http://scrapy.org (allows to scrape more complex sites; also OSS)

http://scrapinghub.com (for a cloud-based platform and a smart proxy rotator)

(Disclaimer: working there.)

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by shaneaevans »

A similar thing happened to Needlebase, another visual scraping tool, which was bought by google in 2012 and shut down. Before that there was dapper..

Shameless plug: At Scrapinghub, we're committed to open source and Portia (http://scrapinghub.com/portia/) is the only open source alternative to Kimono. We'll be providing an easy migration path for Kimono users.

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by Bammybums »

minimaxir wrote: post #27
mrdrozdov wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting you say this, since it seems like DiffBot is doing something similar and received positive media recently: http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/11/diffbot-aims-to-build-the-i...

DiffBot appears to be different (pun intended). Even when implementing your own scraper, you still have to understand the inherent structure/organization of the webpage. DiffBot appears to do that automatically, which could be a timesaver if it works reliably without significant data fidelity issues . I put the HN front page through their Discussion API Test Drive...and it identifies submission elements except submis…

if you run HN front page through import.io's magic, it works pretty well: https://magic.import.io/?site=https:%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.c...

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by Harshita »

ultimatejman wrote: post #115
kumarski wrote: post #39

Relevant Scraping/Crawling Lead Mining Tools: http://grabby.io http://fullcontact.com http://emailhunter.co http://clearbit.com http://toofr.com http://import.io http://kimonolabs.com http://apifier.com (favs) http://elink.club http://www.eliteproxyswitcher.com/ - ;)

i have found import.io to be pretty good

Have you tried pulling out anything from LinkedIn there?

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by irremediable »

dkarapetyan wrote: post #76
code4tee wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sort of plays right into the whole argument being made over on another thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11105198 ) that companies shouldn't rely too heavily on proprietary tools to solve their data challenges. Palantir is the poster child for black box software company that keeps trying to sell you more expensive licenses for their mystery algorithm. I know they've had some success in the government sect…

There is no mystery algorithm. It's just cheap college labor working obscene hours to pump out "data analysis" scripts. The sad thing is that it actually works. The places that hire palantir are so mired in bureaucracy and process that whatever palantir builds seems to be better. Of course, just like SAP and Accenture you're now kinda locked in with support contracts. Modern tools like spark and mesos in theory let y…

Is it cheap college labour? They pay pretty well.
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