ScrapeOwl: Simple and powerful web scraping API

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Hi Folks 🙌 Thank you @musharofchy for hunting 🙏 I am super excited to share our first ever product with you all 🎉🥳😍 Web scraping is difficult and scaling a scraper is hard. So We are excited to announce https://scrapeowl.com Simple and powerful scraping API with: JavaScript Rendering Proxies Headless chrome Extracting data from the page ScrapeOwl turns a web page into formatted JSON with its powerful HTML parser that supports both the CSS selector and XPath. The goal is to make scraping as easy as using a simple API. Thanks, Athar 😍 Anything for Product Hunters? Offering 30% Recurring lifetime discount on any plan. Apply coupon code: PHSPECIAL during checkout.

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4yr ago

Gajus Kuizinas

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Congrats on the launch. Heads up that the "Try the Extraction API" does not seem to work. I added https://aboutsnack.com, it loads for a second, and nothing happens next. I tried a few other URLs, so it does not even seem to be URL specific.

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4yr ago

Athar Ahmed

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@kuizinas Thanks for trying it out, that's rather strange — I just tested it with a few URLs and it works fine. Here is the example response from the URL you mentioned.

The demo box on the homepage takes up to 1 minute before it can show the details depending on the time it takes to extract the details from the page. Let me know if you need to test the demo with actual elements. Thanks

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4yr ago

Gajus Kuizinas

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@nizamaniathar Oh I see what's going on. I simply typed "aboutsnack.com". I looked at the API response and that fails with "The url format is invalid."

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4yr ago

Athar Ahmed

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@kuizinas Thanks for pointing that you, it is a minor oversight from my part on site's demo. I'm fixing it right now and making it always ask for URL with prefix. The validator requires the URL to begin with either "http://" or "https://" Thanks!

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4yr ago