There’s a ton of excellent tools for turning data in Airtable into websites. But how about the reverse - scraping data from websites into Airtable?
After some good community feedback I’ve launched a direct Airtable integration on Simplescraper to hel...
@Air_Table3, @chrismessina, @Nicolas_Lapierre, @Bill.French, @itoldusoandso
Hey, please excuse the shortage of updates on this. I progressed further down the block (now App) path before realizing that a direct integration would be a smoother and more...
@chrismessina - Hey Chris, a quick update on this:
We’ve been working on a custom block that allows you to easily import data into Airtable using Simplescraper. Here’s a preview of it in action:
In the demo we import data from Stackoverflow but the ...
It would great to see a general purpose data extraction tool, and many companies are trying.
I think what may inhibit progress in this area is the possibility of ‘only’ achieving 90% reliability, which, while an amazing feat, is effectively no differ...
Thanks for explaining the use case some more, @chrismessina.
Similar to your idea of a shared repo, we have the concept of a “recipe store” than contains a collection of scraping configurations for various websites. As these are valuable to everybody...
Thanks for the info, Bill.
Found the relevant API docs and the Javascript client so looks like it’s possible to cook up some kind of integration. Using something like Zapier is an option but directly is cleaner and simpler (for the user at least!).
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