UPDATE: KimonoLabs was acquired by Palantir in early 2016, and no longer supports this product. Kimono is a web-scraping tool by KimonoLabs that turns any data on the web into an API. The user selects data from a web page, and Kimono builds a model of the data. Kimono then provides that data in an API, and revisits the original page periodically to keep the API up-to-date.
Kimono has announced that it will shut down the service on february 29 2016
Kimono is a web-scraping tool by Kimono Labs that turns any data on the web into an API. Using Kimono's browser extension, you define the sites and objects (CSS selectors) you want to crawl. Output formats include JSON, CSV and RSS.
Kimono Labs hosts the crawls and the results. It also supplies API keys and links to the API for a number of commonly used web app frameworks:
- Curl
- jQuery
- Node.js
- PHP
- Python 2
- Python 3
- Ruby
- R
- Go
Crawl scheduling and myriad config options are available. As of the writing of this tag wiki, the Kimono API is in beta.
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