Mixing Up Great Data Without the Hassle of Scraping | YDN Blog - Yahoo!

[Karl Dubost]

Interesting, though it just moves the issue. It's not a solution, it just creates a different problem. :) But still… interesting.



On Tue, 07 May 2013 17:24:37 GMT
In Mixing Up Great Data Without the Hassle of Scraping | YDN Blog - Yahoo!
At http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/mixing-great-data-without-hassle-scraping-065032245.html

> Import.io solves the problem or obtaining data
> from multiple sources on the web by providing APIs
> which query and extract data from websites into
> consistent JSON data formats.
>
> The import.io extractor tool allows developers to
> train our platform to recognise semi-structured
> information in web pages so that it can provide
> information extraction from web pages on demand
> over REST APIs. The information is extracted from
> the pages and returned in a structured JSON
> document which adheres to the schema that you
> define when you create the extractor.

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Karl Dubost
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/

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