This looks awesome. Thank you!
I wanted to give you a heads-up that the youtube video at the end of your joyride tutorial is broken.
It tries to play this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10yKzP3gtkc
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#12Suggestion: Please be upfront about pricing. I've been bitten with similar tool dying because they were too shy to ask for money.
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#13"Price: Contact us"
Why?
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#14using the css selector can easily cause the page to be unresponsive.
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#15Doesn't work at all with JS.
This is a big thing on many sites now.
Also, since that is the case, you could build this in a few hours using something like: https://github.com/bda-research/node-crawler. Yes, it would have no gui, so you lose that.
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#16using the css selector can easily cause the page to be unresponsive.
Can you let us know which page and selector you're trying? I can debug it
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#17How does this compare to Kimono?
Kimono shut down on February 29th, 2016 and the cloud service has been discontinued. It only exists as a desktop app now.
Bought by Palantir, they retired in a good way, keeping people's data available for a moment and communicating well.
It was a great product still complicated to get a practical business model.
This WrapAPI v2 is an alternative I think, but I would use them with care as the economical model is unsure and it seems to be really new, still promising! :)
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#18How does this compare to Kimono?
Kimono shut down on February 29th, 2016 and the cloud service has been discontinued. It only exists as a desktop app now. Bought by Palantir, they retired in a good way, keeping people's data available for a moment and communicating well. It was a great product still complicated to get a practical business model. This WrapAPI v2 is an alternative I think, but I would use them with care as the economical model is unsu…
The desktop app + browser plugin still seem to work fine. I've run into a few things that don't quite work well, like pages that have a combination of click-to-paginate and auto-scroll-paginate, but in general, it's good.
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#19"Price: Contact us" Why?
Likely because they have custom pricing based loosely on how much business value they create for the customer. E.g. if a philatelist wanted to scrape stamp catalogs, and if an industry-specific analytics platform wanted to scrape a directory of prospects - you'd want two different prices. Otherwise, you'd either 1) leave stamp enthusiasts out in the rain, or 2) leave a whole lot of meat on the bone w/r/t enterprise pricing. There might also be a consulting upsell!
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#20Does this violate any current US law?