Handinger is an API that makes it easy and affordable to extract data from the Internet—perfect for product builders who need to scrape lots of info. As the Internet gets trickier to pull data from, Handinger simplifies the process for you.
Some months ago, I was building the bookmark manager for fika.bar—which I launched here in Product Hunt. I needed a way to fetch metadata, screenshots, and markdown content of websites. "Easy", I thought. But weeks later, I was building data pipelines, proxy rotation schemes and TLS fingerprinting. Not fun. And not what I wanted to spend my time on: My product was a bookmark manager, not a data extraction service, and yet, most of my efforts ended up there!
It turns out that the Internet has become a difficult place to extract information from. Most websites have implemented measures against it, which makes building products like fika.bar more difficult and expensive than it should be.
Handinger is my attempt to fix this. I extracted the work I'd done for fika.bar and built it into a general purpose data extraction API.
My hope is that Handinger makes it easier and cheaper for people to build products that need data from the internet.
I hope people realise how impressive this is. This is an insanely useful API. Congrats and thanks for your hard work! I love the vibe of the site too, fun brand. 👏
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Hi Pao,
Congratulations on launch!
How are you able to work with different websites?
Sites have different structures and it seems difficult to process each structure automatically?
@aw4 Hi Amelia! I use a mix of heuristics that work for most websites. Luckily a lot of people have already figured this out and there is a lot of open source libraries I can use for that :)
@paoramen --
My apologies. I am using a proxy, which could be the reason.
I am getting an "object not found" error on Firefox.
I tried accessing the image URL remotely from a different network, and it loaded successfully.
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I’m going to try it! If it works for the links that I need, I’m a customer🤟
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