Apifier

The web scraping and automation platform

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The web scraping and automation platform

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Apifier extracts data from websites, crawls lists of URLs and automates workflows on the web. Turn any website into an API in a few minutes! See our relaunch as Apify: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/apify-1

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Crawlee

Maker

@passingnotes Hey David, thanks! We're considering using a similar model as GitHub - all free accounts have to make their crawlers public and only paid accounts can have them private. Do you think people would be okay with that?

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11yr ago

@jancurn I think people creating certain crawlers will be fine sharing, but may want anonymity for community sharing

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11yr ago

Crawlee

Maker

Hi Hunters, we’re Jan and Jakub, the makers of Apifier. About a year ago we looked for a web scrapper for one of our consulting projects but none of the existing ones actually worked for websites that we needed. So we decided to build a new one. Unlike the point-and-click web scrapers, Apifier doesn't run into troubles with complicated or dynamic websites and you don't need to work around a new user interface when you start using it - you define your scraper using the same JavaScript code that you already use for your front-end web development. We’re looking forward to hear what you think! We’ll be around to answer any questions.

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11yr ago

@jancurn hey guys! I love scrapers =} but the bigger issues of scraping "the websites we need" are around ips/proxies what are you doing on that front?

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11yr ago

YC Female Founders Holiday Gift Guide 2017

Apifier is a web scraper that extracts structured data from any website using a few simple lines of JavaScript. For example, imagine you found a website selling shoes and want to get a spreadsheet with all the shoe sizes, colors, prices etc. You could create such a spreadsheet manually using copy and paste, but that would take you a lot of time and frustration. Or you could setup Apifier to do this for you in a few seconds. Apifier is a startup to launch from the YC Fellowship.

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11yr ago

nice! would love to see a community driven collection of custom crawlers (to simply recycle or emulate)

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11yr ago

Crawlee

Maker

@gerbz, yeah absolutely, we're actually rotating a number of proxies. We can also arrange for people to use their own list of proxies if they want.

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11yr ago

Can Apifier scrape behind a login? (Wasn't able to find this info on your website)

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10yr ago

@desmonddantzler Sorry for the late response! Yes we can scrape behind a login. There are several ways to do this. The easiest way is to simply transfer cookies from your browser. We've got a tutorial for that here https://support.apifier.com/know...

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10yr ago

Everything is an API if you can scrape good enough :D

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11yr ago

Crawlee

Maker

@kostgx Exactly, that's why it's called Apifier :)

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11yr ago

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