Kimono vs Portia: What are the differences?

What is Kimono? Turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds. You don't need to write any code or install any software to extract data with Kimono. The easiest way to use Kimono is to add our bookmarklet to your browser's bookmark bar. Then go to the website you want to get data from and click the bookmarklet. Select the data you want and Kimono does the rest We take care of hosting the APIs that you build with Kimono and running them on the schedule you specify. Use the API output in JSON or as CSV files that you can easily paste into a spreadsheet..

What is Portia? Visual web scraping tool that lets you extract data without writing a single line of code. Portia is an open source tool that lets you get data from websites. It facilitates and automates the process of data extraction. This visual web scraper works straight from your browser, so you don't need to download or install anything.

Kimono and Portia can be categorized as "Web Scraping API" tools.

Some of the features offered by Kimono are:

• Build an API in seconds with kimono to power your apps, models and visualizations with live data without writing any code
• The kimono smart extractor recognizes patterns in web content allowing you get the data you want quickly and visually
• We host your APIs and data in the cloud and run them on the schedule that's right for you

On the other hand, Portia provides the following key features:

• Extracts data from websites based on visual selections by the user
• Creates generic web scrapers which are capable of extracting data from any web page with a similar structure
• Exports scraped data in CSV, JSON, JSON-lines and XML

Portia is an open source tool with 7.08K GitHub stars and 1.12K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Portia's open source repository on GitHub.