Data Extraction without semantic web | Olivier Girardot's Ramblings

Ok, now imagine you could extract any data from the web or any (un-)structured datasets... you got it ? okay now you certainly imagine it's just a dream, or a very expensive technology.

I thought just like you, until i came across this API : http://www.alchemyapi.com/api/ with features like these :

Entity Extraction
Text Categorization
Language Detection
Concept Tagging
Keyword Extraction
Text Extraction
Content Scraping and Structured Data Extraction
Microformats Parsing/Extraction
RSS / ATOM detection

And the basic API is for FREE, and available with a SDK in many languages. I already tried the API in Python and it will clearly be useful to me, now or in the future. Check it out, and tell me what you think.

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