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Someone in that reddit thread brought up this particular startup that Facebook acquired in February http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/19/octazen-what-the-heck-did-
by iamdave 16y ago
Someone in that reddit thread brought up this particular startup that Facebook acquired in February
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/19/octazen-what-the-heck-did-facebook-just-buy-exactly-and-why/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/19/octazen-what-the-heck-did-f...
- timcederman 16y agoYep. Octazen make a great scraper at a good price. However, unlike Rapleaf's product (which goes through their servers and they admit they keep a copy of everything), you at least get standalone code that keeps the data on your servers. So I'm not sure they actually gained any new data from Octazen, just a smart team well-versed in scraping.