[HPouillot]

Thanks for you feedback ! We talked to the co-founders of Kimono Labs and their approach was a bit different. Our goal is to automate processes on the Internet and scraping is just the first step.

Timing is perfect because to do that, you need a robust headless browser and a smart way to locally identify the elements on the page if you don't want to maintain your scripts. That's why we use Puppeteer and TensorflowJS which didn't exists 2-3 years ago.

But sure, there are website owners who don't want an API for their website. Our plan is not to fight against them but to start with owner that are already convinced that they could benefits from automating the usage of their website. The banking sector understood that, and that's why Yodlee and Plaid are so successful today.

And if you step back, there are tons of websites that don't have the ressources to create an API (30% of the websites have been created using Wordpress) and don't know the value they could generate from it.

So yes, we'll have to overcome a lot of challenges to build this technology and make it accessible to everyone but we are convinced that the Internet will be used more and more programmatically in the future and we are just paving the way for it ;)