Introduction to import.io

there is a lot of data on the web

but it is trapped inside web pages

and getting it is difficult

you can use an API

if there is one available

you can write custom computer code :-(

but that is painful

:-(

both require a friendly developer

and a lot of time

for every single website

4 hours 4 days

imagine if...

you could turn any website

into a spreadsheet

or an API

in less than 4 minutes

without writing any code

without writing any code

so how does it work?

this is our web browser, for data

extract data by point-and-click

extract data by point-and-click

extract data by point-and-click

extract data by point-and-click

extract data by point-and-click

extract data by point-and-click

extract data by point-and-click

record actions on a website

record actions on a website

record actions on a website

there is a crawler to get all data

search multiple sources in real time

create a dashboard for data display

and everything is available over API

powerful stuff

let’s talk about use cases

wanted an iPhone app

with hospital data from the NHS

there is a website but no API

so they built an API

and now in their iPhone app...

...they have hospital data

...they have hospital data

sell laptops

via channel partners

the channel partners are meant to observe MRP = Minimum Retail Price

which means no further discounting allowed

but sometimes channel partners are a bit naughty

this is a problem

so HP built APIs to partner websites

and can now monitor live price data

Global Recruitment Corporation

when job appears on a careers page

they want it in Salesforce

so this guy can do his job

they tried writing custom code

for 4,000 web sites

every website is different

how long would that take?

4 hours 4 days

remember?

8 years 61 years

for 4,000 websites let’s call it 30 man years

with import•io...

0

7.5

15

22.5

30

web scrapers import•io

it took 5 people 2 weeks = 0.2 man years

remember no developers required

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