Hey ProductHunters!
Crawly is a free tool I built that uses Diffbot's automatic article extraction api to turn web content into structured data. I've used it for creating a centralized database of all of our content, but you could also use it to do content audits / migrations or analyze your competitor's content.
It's currently limited to 200 pages and only articles at the moment, but I plan to add support for scraping products in the future. Any other features you'd like to see added?
@druwynings You should really update that page to clarify the "articles only" caveat. Especially when the tagline on your home page is "No rules required"
@callmeed Will do! Like I mentioned, support for products, discussions, images, and videos is in the works.
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Awesome!!! Looking for a replacement for Kimono (https://www.kimonolabs.com/) since they got acquired by Palantir. Need something to power my Slack menu bot ;)
Looks great. Congrats on the launch! I can see some nice applications for this. One suggestion - I understand that it might take a while to scrape the data, but an instant email to say it will be X minutes, or just a notification after email input would be good, to manage expectations. I used it 10 mins ago, and am on the verge of tears that I still have no email... ;-)
The potential of this is really big and there are clearly needs across a lot of industries.
Unfortunately, my tests with some ecommerce product pages had less than stellar results.
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