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A recent startup, KimonoLabs, established in 2014, set out to change
the scraping landscape. Its recently announced takeover by Palantir
will shut down its data scraping service. Kimono has produced a desktop
app into which devs can import its APIs before the end of March.
Picking up on the growing trend, driven in part by the growing IoT applications Kimono aimed to build web based RESTful APIs around them that would be accessible by developers and non developers alike.
Its early successes included integration with the Pebble smart watch for results of the 2014 World Cup.
Kimono's API's promised to take the burden off the user, who otherwise would had to write code and use tools such as Scrapy for his scraping tasks instead. In short Kimono did the scraping for you and provided the results via a standard API.
But delay in establishing a sustainable revenue plan was probably the major reason for its takeover by Palantir.
full article on i-programmer
Picking up on the growing trend, driven in part by the growing IoT applications Kimono aimed to build web based RESTful APIs around them that would be accessible by developers and non developers alike.
Its early successes included integration with the Pebble smart watch for results of the 2014 World Cup.
Kimono's API's promised to take the burden off the user, who otherwise would had to write code and use tools such as Scrapy for his scraping tasks instead. In short Kimono did the scraping for you and provided the results via a standard API.
But delay in establishing a sustainable revenue plan was probably the major reason for its takeover by Palantir.
full article on i-programmer
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