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Show HN: Web Scraping in Google Sheets(link.fish)
153 points by linkfish 9y ago|31 comments
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by linkfish 9y ago
Thanks a lot for all the feedback! 1. Yes will think about it. For just the API it would make definitely sense. However because the same technology currently also powers the bookmarking service which has to support as much as possible does
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by linkfish 9y ago
Thanks, dito! Is actually already supported when a special parameter is set(on the API-Test-Box on the landing page it is not set). About the pricing. Was a longer process. Mainly involved what other similar services charge and much more im
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by linkfish 9y ago
As not native english speaker I am always happy to get help in that regard ;-) Thanks!
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by linkfish 9y ago
Thanks a lot! Will investigate and fix. If you run into any other issues please keep them coming!
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by linkfish 9y ago
It did actually just extract the data of the "hero" item. The thing is that it gets offered by multiple companies for different prices. So all the prices are valid and none is right or wrong. So really depends what you want. If yo
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by linkfish 9y ago
It uses a combination of everything to extract information incl. custom parsers. The data returned to the user is always in schema.org.
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by linkfish 9y ago
Yes is similar to it in the regard that with both tools data from websites can be extracted.
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by linkfish 9y ago
Yes right now not. However an endpoint for exactly that is actually planned. So you can simply write to api@link.fish and we can inform you when it is ready.
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by linkfish 9y ago
Hard to say and compare in what regard exactly? Price wise, much cheaper. Data wise, it depends. Mainly on in what kind of data you are interested in. Will probably return better results on text-heavy pages, but the data is probably often l
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by linkfish 9y ago
Very sorry for that! Worked everywhere but should not have used a relative link on the free account signup page. Got fixed.
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Show HN: Link.fish – API to extract data from websites as JSON(link.fish)
201 points by linkfish 9y ago|77 comments
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Show HN: Link.fish – Boomarking meets web-parsing with archiving(link.fish)
58 points by linkfish 9y ago|34 comments