MCorbani

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by MCorbani 6y ago
Love it, go weweb.io!!
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by MCorbani 6y ago
Best tool ever for remote / pair programming - debugging gets (almost) fun thanks to you guys :)
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Indeed, amazon has different layouts and can be tricky. For now, our model is resilient to minor changes but we are working on improving it - amazon.com.au look like a good test ;-)
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Thanks =)
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by MCorbani 7y ago
There is plenty of differences among which 1/ we don't rely on classic selectors (CSS, xPath, etc) which allows us to be resilient to website updates 2/ we offer a simple UI that automates data selection and structuration and
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Not yet, but we are working on it =)
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Thanks! Let us know if you have any question or feedback =)
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Good point! That's why our plan is to focus on use-cases that create value for websites too, in order to partner up with them.
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Good question. However, that would require websites' users to validate a Captcha every time they navigate it, which is not optimal in terms of user experience.
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by MCorbani 7y ago
We don't crawl the websites yet. However, you can create an API on a given webpage and gather data from similar webpages on the same website by calling the API with the new URL.
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by MCorbani 7y ago
UiPath and others RPA actors allow their users to mainly automate local processes on Windows. We are cross-platform and focusing on the web, which makes us useful for other use-cases like gathering data or automating navigation sessions!
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by MCorbani 7y ago
That's a good point. Our app is validated by Apple on MacOS and the Windows version will be soon. Also, we have thousands of users and you can google us : no claim for spam at all =) Note : FyI, we worked on a SaaS version but the user
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by MCorbani 7y ago
No you read it correctly : by creating an account today, you will have 10k FREE API calls =)
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Yes! we have been quite occupied since the end of YC but we plan on releasing it soon =) Please ping us at hello@dashblock.com and we will inform you when the version is live!
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Definitely =) Let us know know if we can be of any help!
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Agreed, some websites are really reticent about scraping. But let's think about Google, they are scraping the whole web regardless of the ToS of the websites, so it all boils down to one question : do you create value for the website o
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Thank you !
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Correct! Also, Diffbot extracts automatically generic entities (e.g. product name and price, comments, etc) while we let our users choose exactly the data they want on any webpage =)
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by MCorbani 7y ago
Thank you! Kimono Labs built an amazing product and has been finally acquired by Palantir. The main difference between us comes from our machine learning model that gives stability to extraction over time and parse webpages in a generic way