HPouillot

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   by HPouillot 7y ago

   I was a huge fan of Kimono as well. You can't edit an API for now but we will add this feature in the next release.
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   by HPouillot 7y ago

   Thanks for your feedback !
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   by HPouillot 7y ago

   Thanks for your feedback !
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   by HPouillot 7y ago

   Thanks ! You can create an API for any website (news website included) from our Mac/Windows software and you can access this API from anywhere. It runs on our servers and you can query it from any language you want. Let us know if you
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   by HPouillot 7y ago

   Thanks for you feedback ! We talked to the co-founders of Kimono Labs and their approach was a bit different. Our goal is to automate processes on the Internet and scraping is just the first step. Timing is perfect because to do that, you n
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   by HPouillot 7y ago

   Thanks ! 1. It changes the user experience but the underlying model stay the same and will allow our user to record session with inputs and clicks in next releases. 2. Indeed, if you can replay a session you check the data is what you expec
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   by HPouillot 7y ago

   We use machine learning to extract the content of the page, which means when the webpage changes you don't have to update your selection like Octoparse.
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   by HPouillot 7y ago

   You have 10k API calls when you sign up and 1k per month after that. Does it answer your question ?
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   by HPouillot 7y ago

   We did :) It works on all kind of pages. You just have to set it up on one page and it will work on all similar pages of the website. Did you have in mind to train a model to recognise careers pages across websites ?
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    by HPouillot 7y ago

    Ahah, great ! The minimum required version is 10.10 (Yosemite) If you want to do that on the web, you'll have to render the page in an iframe to select the content and most websites don't allow it. In short, the user experience is
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    by HPouillot 7y ago

    We don't provide an API to manage other API yet, but this inception use-case is interesting. Could you specify what your app would like to do ? We render the Javascript of the page and for now we don't provide a way to specify if
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    by HPouillot 7y ago

    We don't use sophisticated methods for now, we just use a serverless architecture, so IP changes at each invocation. Feel free to contact us at hello@dashblock.com if it doesn't work for your use-case :)
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    by HPouillot 7y ago

    It doesn't require Artificial General Intelligence, with enough training data (crowdsourced data and human-edited metadata like JSON-LD or RFD), we can classify automatically the attributes on the page (product name, movie title, creat
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    by HPouillot 7y ago

    Yep, that's our plan :)
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    by HPouillot 7y ago

    Thanks for the advice, it makes a lot of sense !
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    by HPouillot 7y ago

    Thanks Radu !
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    by HPouillot 7y ago

    Indeed, we are rendering the whole page with the javascript, that's why it takes longer than a curl. For now, it's especially useful for dynamic pages but we also plan on supporting pages that don't require rendering.
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