link.fish
Data
web scraping
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
10 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Idea: 6 for, 1 againstPricing: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for quickly scraping simple pages into a spreadsheet
From 2 comments
Ever since kimono labs shut down I haven't found a good point and click replacement - this looks like it might fit my needs of scraping <10 pages for something simple like blog…
soared on HNReally interesting tool. Searching for that time ago. Can't wait to try it out.
miguelbemartin on HN
Good for early prototypes and lightweight data
From 1 comment
I think this is an opportunity for people who want to quickly build early versions of a product or website without diving deeply into the code. I've used Google Spreadsheets for…
JanKoenig on HN
Objections
Pricing seems high or unclear
From 3 comments
Cool product, excited to try it out! Apologies in advance for unsolicited feedback, but I think you could benefit a lot on the revenue side if you played around with pricing.…
jacobwal on HNDo yourself a big favour, and make your credit numbers locale-aware. Many (most? not sure) people are going to assume (like I did) that $9.99 would get me 10 credits, because "."…
foxylad on HNGreat job. You might need to work on pricing. (I am sure, you are still experimenting). I used google sheets before to get rest APIs and extract information. (internal project).…
ajainy on HN
Credit numbers are confusing for non-English locales
From 1 comment
Do yourself a big favour, and make your credit numbers locale-aware. Many (most? not sure) people are going to assume (like I did) that $9.99 would get me 10 credits, because "."…
foxylad on HN
Does not work with Office for Mac equivalent features
From 1 comment
Unfortunately Office for Mac does not support this, just find out...
aliencat on HN
Requests
Locale-aware credit numbers
From 1 comment
Do yourself a big favour, and make your credit numbers locale-aware. Many (most? not sure) people are going to assume (like I did) that $9.99 would get me 10 credits, because "."…
foxylad on HN
Fix email signup button text
From 1 comment
FYI, the email signup button on the Home page reads: "Keep me updat"
joshsabol46 on HN
Allow editing data selectors created by others
From 1 comment
Interesting. I'm trying it out but getting "You are not allowed to get a DomainDescriptions you did not create!" after creating a custom Data Selector.
jakefr on HN
Questions
Which browser shows the signup button text truncated
From 1 comment
Thanks for the info! However, I just checked and for me, it displays it correctly. Can you please tell me what browser and version you are using that I can debug it. Thanks!
janober on HN
Alternatives named
Excel Power Query web connector
From 1 comment
In case you're not aware, MS Excel already does this. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/connect-to-a-web-page-power-query-b2725d67-c9e8-43e6-a590-c0a175bd64d8
totally on HN
Google Sheets IMPORTXML function
From 1 comment
GoogleSheet natively can import webpages using '=ImportXML("website.com")'. But it is not as elegant as this addon an example:…
redindian75 on HN
Webscraper.io
From 1 comment
Webscraper.io works for me
ikeboy on HN
Kantu OCR web scraping
From 1 comment
Point and click with OCR: https://a9t9.com/kantu/web-scraping
eastendguy on HN
Airtable
From 1 comment
for low-volume requests Airtable is also pretty nice to use in an Excel-like fashion with a dedicated API (free for a couple of thousand of entries). edit: except missing the…
philfrasty on HN