Turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds without writing any code or installing any software. The Kimono API uses standard HTTP response codes and returns data in JSON format. It allows getting, listing, updating, and starting crawls of APIs and includes parameters for versions, CSV, RSS formatting, limiting, offsetting, paging, including URLs, indexing, hashing, time series, stats, and modifying data. Kimono can download data into Google Spreadsheets, embed APIs on sites, create mobile apps from APIs, set up email alerts, and scrape data behind logins.

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Turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds

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Turn websites into APIs in seconds
You don't need to write any code or install any software to
extract data with Kimono.

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Getting Started

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Example: 中央氣象局

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The API is RESTful and uses standard HTTP response codes to indicate errors. JSON will be
returned in all responses from the API, including errors.
200 OK - everything worked as expected
400 Bad request - you may have missing or invalid
parameters
401 Unauthorized - invalid API key
404 Not found - Requested resource not found
500 Server error - something went wrong on our end

13. GET kimonoapis/{API_ID}?apikey={YOUR_API_KEY} 13
Retrieve an API

14. GET kimonoapis?apikey={YOUR_API_KEY} 14
List all APIs

15. POST kimonoapis/{API_ID}/update -d {DATA} 15
Set target url

16. POST kimonoapis/{API_ID}/update -d {DATA} 16
Set frequency

17. POST kimonoapis/{API_ID}/update -d {DATA} 17
Set crawl limit

18. POST kimonoapis/{API_ID}/update -d {DATA} 18
Set crawl urls

19. POST kimonoapis/{API_ID}/startcrawl -d {DATA} 19
Start crawl

20. /api/{VERSION}/{API_ID} 20
API Params - Versions

21. /api/csv/{API_ID} 21
API Params - CSV

22. /api/csv/{API_ID}?kimnoheaders={VALUE} 22
API Params – No Headers

23. /api/rss/{API_ID} 23
API Params – RSS

24. /api/{API_ID}?kimlimit={LIMIT} 24
API Params – Limit

25. /api/{API_ID}?kimoffset={OFFSET} 25
API Params – Offset

26. /api/{API_ID}?kimbypage=1 26
API Params – By Page

27. /api/{API_ID}?kimwithurl=1 27
API Params – With URL

28. /api/{API_ID}?kimindex=1 28
API Params – Index

29. /api/{API_ID}?kimhash=1 29
API Params – Hash

30. /api/{API_ID}?kimseries=1 30
API Params – Time series

31. /api/{API_ID}?kimstats=1 31
API Params – Stats

32. /api/{API_ID}?kimmodify=1 32
API Params – Modify

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API Detail

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Download data into Google Spreadsheets

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Embed in your site

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Create a mobile app
• KimonoApps are responsive HTML5 web
apps, powered by data from kimono APIs.
• KimonoApps have their own URLs and are
hosted on our servers.
• They can be shared with and used by
anyone, not just Kimono users

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Setting up email alerts
• Email alerts are triggered by kimono every time the data that your API is
monitoring changes as long as there is one or more emails added to the email
alerts manager in the API detail page.
• Alert emails will be sent from Kimono Labs [kimonolabs@kimonolabs.com] with
the subject "Your kimono API {API_NAME} has new data".

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Scraping data from behind a log-in

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Sorry. Something went wrong and we couldn't create an API from this page. A
bug report has been created.
You can download the json, csv or rss version of the data you just extracted, but
it won't be saved to your kimono account.

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Cases: Pop-up!

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Cases: Crawl from other API!

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Cases: 自己的正妹牆，自己做!

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Cases: 比價

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Cases: Select from multi pages

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Cases: Kimono API with jQuery

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Cases: Can't select videos

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Q & A