I don't feel it is right to describe it as "turns a website into an API", rather "gives scraped data through an API". "Turn website into an API", for me, evoke

I don't feel it is right to describe it as "turns a website into an API", rather "gives scraped data through an API". "Turn website into an API", for me, evokes the image that I can automate (say) placing an order in Amazon as an API, or paying my bills automatically. It includes scraping, of course, but requires a lot more (mechanize/twill/selenium/phantom/etc power). There was a company called Orsus that did exactly that. Last I heard about them it was the year 2000.