Show HN: Link.fish – API to extract data from websites as JSON
Having done a ton of scraping in the past (especially around ecommerce and products), this looks pretty cool.<p>A couple comments in general:<p>1. Personally I think its better to be great at extracting <i>one</i> kind of data instead of <i>average at many types</i>. It makes sales and growth efforts easier. Pick one of those things (products, recipes, social, etc.) and just focus on that and get great at it.<p>2. I don't think you need the credit <-> request abstraction. Anyone using an API knows what a request is (I hope).<p>Now, a few comments regarding products specifically:<p>1. I got 500 errors on a couple random product URLs.<p>2. On an Amazon product that's on sale, I got back the original price but not the sale price.<p>3. If you truly want to be GREAT at scraping products, the 2 things most people in this space can't do are: (a) extract ALL high-res images for a product, and (b) extract a product's options and variant data (colors, sizes, etc. and availability for each combination)<p>Personally I think there are a ton of opportunities in this space. This is a good start and I wish you the best.