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Kimono vs Scrapy: What are the differences?
Kimono: Turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds. You don't need to write any code or install any software to extract data with Kimono. The easiest way to use Kimono is to add our bookmarklet to your browser's bookmark bar. Then go to the website you want to get data from and click the bookmarklet. Select the data you want and Kimono does the rest We take care of hosting the APIs that you build with Kimono and running them on the schedule you specify. Use the API output in JSON or as CSV files that you can easily paste into a spreadsheet.; Scrapy: A fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python. It is the most popular web scraping framework in Python. An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites. In a fast, simple, yet extensible way.
Kimono and Scrapy belong to "Web Scraping API" category of the tech stack.
Scrapy is an open source tool with 33.5K GitHub stars and 7.87K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Scrapy's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Kimono
- Easy setup2
- Extracting data from ecommerce sites1
- Integrate API with web application1
- Data Scraping1