[OJFord]

Yes, yes, yes!

I'm using Apifier at the moment, which I really like, but my biggest gripe is the awkwardness of source (and VCS) integration. The best I've come up with is to export the JSON config (which contains the scraper source code as a value - yuck) and try to remember to keep re-exporting and checking it in.

Having also had to hack around the inability to parameterise the scrape url (e.g. 'profile/$username') - which they've since added support for - I started to wonder if I mightn't as well just use BeautifulSoup (Python HTML parser lib) and check it in properly.

This is probably my ideal. I can keep it all in source control because it's just an HTTP request body, and I can parameterise it because, well, it's just an HTTP request body!

It's also open source because you're an amazing person; so if I had one little concern left about the availability of your site I can dismiss it right away since I could run my own on Heroku should jamapi.xyz prove unsustainable. It's possibly a better idea to do that anyway, but I often wonder if Heroku doesn't consider that a problem - multiple instances of the same app running on free dynos under different accounts...