Import.io

Import.io erstellt aus den Daten herkömmlicher Websites eine API, also eine machinenlesbare, weiter verarbeitbare Version. Import.io wurde auf der Disrupt Europe Konferenz vorgestellt:

To turn a web page into a developer-friendly API (in this case, that meaning something which developers can use to programmatically pull selected chunks of data from a page), import.io provides what is essentially a bespoke, sandboxed browser.

You load the browser, open the URL for the page you’re interested in turning into an API, then start selecting the specific elements of the page (like, say, each result on a search page) that you want to be able to extract. After you’ve picked a few elements, import.io starts to figure out which data you’re aiming for. Hit save, give it a name, and bam — you’ve got your API. This data can also be exported as HTML, CSV, or XLS.