Show HN: Link.fish – Bookmarking Meets Web-Parsing (HN Exclusive) (link.fish)

Ah yes, hope the Safari users make the effort to test it in another browser for now. Will try to find a good workaround for the final version because it does not seem like Apple will ever fix it.

Great to hear. When you did would feedback be very appreciated as it is still a beta right now.

Thanks a lot! Right now it does not use the clients to scrape the data. But is maybe later planned to be also able to extract data from pages behind logins and/or when there are issues because of the scraping.

Thanks! Will do my best ;-)

Probably depends on how you define success. Kimonolabs did exit and import.io is still running and how it seems not that bad.

Apart from that are they quite different to link.fish . What we have in common is that we all turning websites into structured data. That is however where it ends. They offer pure data extraction services for professionals and companies for big sets of data for a few predefined websites (B2B). It can be automated, download and then they can do with the raw data whatever they want. link.fish, on the other hand, is a bookmarking service which allows anybody (B2C) to work with every websites without technical knowledge (not totally there yet). They can display anything directly in link.fish like sort their recipes by preparation time, their movies by rating and the sights they want to visit on their vacation on a map.

By default does it use a combination of microdata, metadata and common HTML structures to find information. If nothing gets found that way, people can use a custom build in tool which makes selecting the information very easy. If the structure changes, it does not yet get detected automatically. Rather does the first person which sees that information is not there, would have to load the parser and fix the parts that changed. Normally does not take more than a few minutes.

Thanks a lot for the feedback. That is very helpful! Could you maybe tell me what parts you are specifically referring to? Because we actually try to collect as less information as possible. So do we for example not even ask for the name of the users. The only thing we ask for is an email address. The tracking (with for example Google Analytics) is used to know how many people are active and how the page is used to know what features to concentrate on to improve link.fish further (surveys are nice but are never as exact as actual usage data). We also do NOT display any ads nor is it every planned (hate them myself). What is maybe planned in the future (and can then also get deactivated for future paid accounts) is to send users special offers in which they could be interested. Like for example if somebody bookmarks a lot of apartments we can assume he wants to move and so he is maybe interested in getting 20% off for a moving service and/or DSL. Because we will not do any of that soon and currently I am only interested in honest user feedback you can simply sign up and write me an email to jan@link.fish . I will then make sure that as soon we have pro accounts you will get a free one. Thanks!

Great to hear thanks! About the data. It depends on what you mean. If you mean that you can currently not change the data of a single bookmark that's true. However, if you mean that the data can not be corrected in general then not, but it is not very clear for incomplete data yet. There are two possibilities. None technical people can simply click on the (!) in the top right corner of an entry to inform us about wrong or incomplete data. We will then fix it asap. More tech savvy people can use our "Data Selector" tool. If there is no data at all it will display a large button for it directly on the entry. If the data is incomplete it can be reached via "Plugins -> Data Selector" on the top of the page. It allows to easily define what kind of data should be extracted and how it can be found. That tool is still in an early stage so would definitely love some feedback!