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Show HN: Turn any website into an API HackMIT 2013

36 pointsby danysantiagoover 11 years ago
Select anything on a website. If it is part of a table or a list, you get a URL which you can GET for a JSON representation of that list or table. Basically we are making an API for every website whether they like it or not.

8 comments

dizietover 11 years ago
Surely you are better off doing this locally rather than sending the data to your aws server?
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caffeinetocodeover 11 years ago
Nice! Just got the back end up and running on my OSX machine.pointed the chrome plugin to my localhost. works like charm.<p>Though this looks similar to eBay&#x27;s ql.io(open source) , I feel this is much simpler.
justhwover 11 years ago
Tried to run your extension, but kept getting error. Really neat idea, a beginning of something big. <a href="http://imgur.com/slvRZOT" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;slvRZOT</a>
danpalmerover 11 years ago
This is cool, Import.io started doing a similar thing too a few years ago: <a href="http://import.io/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;import.io&#x2F;</a>.
sbruchmannover 11 years ago
So, what’s the advantage over YQL? <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.yahoo.com&#x2F;yql&#x2F;</a>
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drakaalover 11 years ago
&quot;whether they like it or not&quot;<p>Basically they admit that this is a scraping tool for doing things you shouldn&#x27;t.<p>Companies that want to sell you data do. Companies that provide data for free to use how you like do. This is basically automating stealing.<p>I have really low moral standards but I can see the wrongness of this.
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gaileesover 11 years ago
This is awesome.
tweeeyjgover 11 years ago
What was it like? I saw on the HackMIT website that firearms and weapons weren&#x27;t allowed.