Mercury by Postlight
Readability is back, but now it’s called Mercury.
Link tags: scrapi
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kimono : Turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds
This tool for building ScrAPIs is an interesting development—the current trend for not providing a simple API (or even a simple RSS feed) is being interpreted as damage and routed around.
I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit | Hartley Brody
A handy step-by-step guide to scraping HTML to get data out. Useful for services (—cough—Twitter—cough—) that keep changing the rules of their API use.
Brighton to London, leaving at 14:00 - Accessible UK Train Timetables
A new feature on Matthew Somerville's brilliant train timetable site. Just put /fares at the end of any URL to get the cheapest available fare.