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This tool is really well thought-out and useful! I made a working API in less than 1 hr. This tool has a much better design & implementation than Kimono and easier than using Python 3 + Beautiful Soup 4 which is how I made my previous web scrapers. This tool also works for POSTing to web forms.

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No offense, but your comment sounds like astroturfing (I'm not saying you are, just that it's part of a pattern I see).

I often see one or more commenters write what seems like an excessively positive thought dump on Show HNs. It just doesn't seem like the natural conversational tone everyone uses, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Has anyone else noticed it? Is there a term for this sort of writing style?

It could be that I need to work on my writing skills. I'll admit, I'm an systems engineer not a writer. On the other hand, HN commenters tend to convey a healthy dose of cynicism and skepticism. Also it's known that negative comments come across as more trust-worthy than positive comments on the internet. I simply used this tool and it did what it said it did. I don't give a positive review unless I had a good experience. But it is easier for all of us to believe people with some degree of skepticism and cynicism.

Thanks webninja! The POSTing part is one of the biggest things we were trying to get right while not making it any harder to use than Kimono. Is there anything that was confusing when trying to learn it for the first time? If so, we're still trying to make it easier =)

I think it's pretty close to perfect. I made a sample WrapAPI for http://etfdailynews.com/etf/{{symbol}}/ where the symbol is a 3-4 character ETF ticker symbol like VYM. It's one of the only websites I've found that provides the full breakdown of an ETF's contents. Initially I wasn't sure where to provide sample input such as a handful of ticker 3 character strings since /{{symbol}}/ isn't a GET or a POST value. So under the JSON and Table column I had multiple symbols separated by commas and it took me a little while before I realized that you were only supposed to supply one test value and where I was supposed to supply that test value. But it "clicked" shortly after.

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