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I'm in the middle of pushing out v1.0 of Simple scraper[0] this week which will recreate some of the functionality.

Having a lot of fun building the product but with so many of these types of companies shutting down it has me wondering what it forebodes :/

[0] https://simplescraper.io

I think Zapier and IFTTT fill this gap today.

I think there's a lot of projects in this space right now. Especially also fueled by all the people building things the "no code" way.

IFTTT, Zapier, Webflow, integromat etc.

import.io mixed with Zapier / IFTT

luna-lang

You can use modern scripting languages such as Python, Ruby and friends. They will never go out of fashion if you want to put together a pipeline (also known as workflow or script :-).

I really don't think Python qualifies as an equivalent replacement for Pipes.

Of course not :-) Python, Ruby and friends can do so much more (and you can run your pipes on your own computer, for example, ...).

You completly miss the point of what made pipe so useful. Good languages existed back than too, and there were as powerful as today, as they are complicated and timeconsuming. They are simply not an alternative for this.