Overview
Employees
11-50
Founded date
2009
Mentions in press and media 21
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| Oct 3, 2014 | Datafiniti Releases New Version of 80legs Web Crawler | Datafiniti, a data search engine, relaunched 80legs, a service platform for web crawling and processing web content. |
| Jul 30, 2011 | Convoluted TOS and “Open” APIs Will Be the Death of Us | Just under a month ago LinkedIn terminated API access to a handful of third-party services like Beknown and Branchout. If you haven’t noticed the trend here of late, let me break it down for you. What LinkedIn is doing is just the most rec... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Robots Battle Over Wine | The collision of the wine websites CellarTracker and Snooth raises some interesting questions over data ownership. Snooth was accused of copying information from CellarTracker’s user reviews, using an automated robot script crawling the sit... |
| Oct 15, 2010 | Is It Time For a Web Crawling Code of Conduct? | Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal posted an article entitled “‘Scrapers’ Dig Deep for Data on Web“. While the article highlights some important issues surrounding the murky and potentially shady business of Web crawling, it fails t... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | “The Almighty API,” Crawling and The Programmable Web | Today, applications increasingly depend on a rich ecosystem of APIs. Thousands of different services are variously tethered together to form new software offerings and enhance existing ones. The idea of a programmable Web is finally coming ... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | BearHug Goes Head-to-Head with GetSatisfaction (Invites) | BearHug, a new customer engagement platform, is launching its closed beta tonight. The company wants to make it easier for companies to engage with their customers, while still keeping full control over their data and their users’ experienc... |
| Jul 11, 2010 | Extractiv Launches “Semantics as a Service” Platform | Extractiv has quietly launched a service that crawls the Web for text on a specific topic, then transforms it into “structured semantic data.” It’s a direct competitor to Thomson Reuters’ Calais product, which has been doing this for a coup... |
| Apr 19, 2010 | What Twitter Annotations Mean | I love to sit on the beach. One of the coolest things about the beach is the number of layers of visual depth. Look at the sand and it’s beautiful, but zoom your eyes in closer and you’ll see a whole layer of life running around on the sand... |
| Apr 19, 2010 | Thoughts From the Man Who Would Sell The World, Nicely | “My background is in Artificial Intelligence and my last business was building predictive data. Most of our customers were oil companies, and you can hold that against me if you like. But my pitch back then was ‘just give me enough data, I’... |
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FAQ about 80legs
When was 80legs founded?
80legs was founded in 2009.
What has the press written about 80legs?
Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning 80legs, among them “Datafiniti Releases New Version of 80legs Web Crawler” (Oct 3, 2014) and “Convoluted TOS and “Open” APIs Will Be the Death of Us” (Jul 30, 2011).
Is 80legs still active?
Yes, 80legs is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 8, 2020.