Note: Portia is no longer available for new users. It has been disabled for all the new organisations from August 20, 2018 onward.
Attention Kimono users: we've created an exporter so you can easily convert your projects from Kimono to Portia!
Imagine your business depended heavily on a third party tool and one day that company decided to shut down its service with only 2 weeks notice. That, unfortunately, is what happened to users of Kimono Labs yesterday.
And it’s one of the many reasons why we love open source so much.
Portia is an open source visual scraping tool developed by Scrapinghub to make it easier to get data from the web without needing to write a line of code.
You can do anything with Portia that you can with Kimono Labs, but without vendor lock-in. This allows you to run your spiders on our platform, but you always have the option to move to your own infrastructure.
Also, we won’t be leaving you high and dry, Kimono users. We've developed an exporter to easily migrate your Kimono projects to Portia. Check it out: kimono.scrapinghub.com
Get started with Portia here. And take a look at our Knowledge Base in case you have any questions.
Take a look at Kimono and Portia in action:
Our upcoming Portia 2.0 release includes:
And soon after, we’ll also be adding new features like:
Portia is fully integrated into our platform, Scrapy Cloud, but you can also checkout the repository and run it locally or on your own server. The benefits of running Portia on Scrapy Cloud include:
Since Portia is open source, we welcome any and all developers who are interested in contributing.