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Not exactly passive, but side hustle that I hope becomes main hustle: https://simplescraper.io https://simplescraper.io Tryna fill the gap that Kimono left. A

• claytn 7y ago
  This is awesome! Will give it a try sometime.
• tontonius 7y ago
  Cool! Will bookmark this
• ghawkescs 7y ago
  This looks really cool, I was disappointed when Kimono was shut down. Please reach out to me (email in profile), I would like to learn more about your product.
  • welanes 7y ago
    Thanks. I will for sure - although unless I'm doing something silly, don't see your email when I click through.
    • ghawkescs 7y ago
      Whoops, it should be there now.
• jamil7 7y ago
  > Aim to post as a Show HN once I polish it a little more. Are you kidding? the home page at least looks really polished! great work.
• TheWizardofOdds 7y ago
  Would you mind sharing how you want to monetize this?
  • cameron_b 7y ago
    It looks like there are credits for automating it outside of your browser
  • welanes 7y ago
    Sure. I'm thinking a certain amount of cloud scraping / API request credits in the free tier and any number above that falls into a paid tier.
• pier25 7y ago
  FYI there's a typo in your home page... > We surveyed the landscape of complicted web scraping tools
  • welanes 7y ago
    I must have looked at that homepage over 1000 times and still didn't catch that! Thank you, fixed it.
    • pier25 7y ago
      No problem!
• BlameKaneda 7y ago
  I just used it to scrape some camera data from Adorama. Pretty, pretty good! I'll tinker with it more later today.
• mathfailure 7y ago
  Fails to scrape article previews from https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/ https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/
  • welanes 7y ago
    Works for me: https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5db9feb530c3d00013d47ded https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5db9feb530c3d00013d47ded