
After two years of active development and rapid growth of the user base (over 125 thousand clients), the Kimono cloud service team happily announces that it has joined Palantir, a privately owned American company that develops data analysis software for organizations. This event is joyful, but not all.
Kimono is a cloud service that allows you to turn almost any site into a structured data provider in XML or JSON format. The user does not even need any special programming skills.
For those who are not familiar with the service, the demo video will demonstrate the simplicity of its use and the main features:
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After meeting with future colleagues, the guys from Kimonolabs were amazed at the potential for growth and development. Palantir offered them access to a huge amount of data, full technological support and resources, as well as the opportunity to work on tasks they hadn’t dreamed of in their startup. It was unwise to refuse. They decided to sacrifice the development and support of their offspring, and on February 29, access to all its data directly through the site and API will be disabled.
It is necessary to pay tribute to the developers. They made a
desktop version of the service that within 30 days after the official closure of the service will allow them to upload their APIs (including data collection rules, settings, address lists, etc.) with the exception of the data itself. The application for Mac and Windows will work in conjunction with a special
extension for the Chrome browser.
For details, refer to the
FAQ .
I propose to discuss in the comments who and how used Kimono and who will do what next.
UPD : Thanks to
Saiten for sample services similar to Kimono:
These are
www.import.io and
www.parsehub.com , as well as
scrapy.org ,
www.80legs.com ,
scrapinghub.comUPD2 : Thanks to
mraketing for the hint:
xml.garpun.com