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Show HN: Diggernaut – Turn website content into data sets
- Lxr 10y agoLooks interesting; your intro video doesn't work for me on mobile though - overflows and cannot zoom out.
- diggernaut 10y agoThank you for your feedback, we will check and fix this issue shortly
- mSparks 10y agoFirst i felt like yawning. But who knows maybe people are interested in paying to scrape websites. Pretty sure they'll face some hefty legal fees fairly sharpish tho. Scraping now being illegal in many countries. Then i found the website doesnt work properly in landscape and the intro video doesnt work at all and thought. What chance have these guys got of doing decent contextual mining from websites if they cant even get a bootstrap website right.
- sctb 10y agoPlease read the commenting guidelines for Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- mSparks 10y agomaybe you should. ---> When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative. ____ hardly "gratuitously negative". Just simple honest opinion of someone wanting to charge $1000 a month for something that anyone with an interest in already has lining their software shelves on site. Which a ton of free alternatives liter the internet. And is also now illegal.
- diggernaut 10y agothank you for your opinion, we noted it. By the way you are paying for using cloud resources, not for using technology, you can compile digger, download it and run for free at your own server or computer. And you can do it with free plan. So Im not really sure why we are discussing cost of our subscription plans :) We are in beta, so we would really appreciate some feedback about user experiece when they using website, visual extractor, or compiled diggers. Legal side of web scraping is heavily depends on country you live in.
- mSparks 10y agolegally speaking https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/15/linkedin-sues-scrapers/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/15/linkedin-sues-scrapers/
- bdcravens 10y agoYour comments seem targeted at their website, which is obviously an off-the-shelf theme from Themeforest or the like. (one I know I've seen before) It's not particularly well-done, but their service isn't building websites. Many a startup has their blog on Medium, or perhaps self-hosted Wordpress instance, and you could echo the same concerns.
- mSparks 10y agoThe service is understanding the intracacies of html and webservices of any and every kind. while negotiating a legal minefield. So I would not echo the same concerns to any startup with a blog on wordpress or medium. I would however echo similar concerns if an audiophile startup made an introductory youtube video with the sound so distorted and broken you couldn't understand what they were saying.
- Meic 10y agoIf you don't mind a bit of programming, http://morph.io http://morph.io is great for hosted scraping.
- mkoryak 10y agoOn mobile the pricing tables seem to be missing tge TH cells so I don't know what any of the numbers mean
- diggernaut 10y agoThanks a lot, we are working on a long list of changes to make make mobile users experience better, added your feedback to the list
- disruptalot 10y agoAlso can't watch the intro video :(. It's not responsive to the screen width.
- diggernaut 10y agoThank you guys for all these feedback for using website on mobile, we fixed index page, video should work now on phones, so as price list and also footer. And now fixing signup page for mobiles :)
- assafmo 10y agoShameless self plug My chrome extension https://github.com/assafmo/chrome-page-to-json https://github.com/assafmo/chrome-page-to-json seems to extract your sandbox page beautifully! (https://www.diggernaut.com/sandbox/ https://www.diggernaut.com/sandbox/) BTW Very nice platform, I might try it this weekend. Good luck!