2012 founders david white cpo matthew painter cto andrew fogg cdo headquarters london uk san francisco us key people gary read ceo website http import.io import.io is a web based platform for extracting data from websites without writing any code . the tool allows people to create an api using their point and click interface . users navigate to a website and teach the app to extract data by highlighting examples of data from the page learning algorithms then generalise from these examples to work out how to get all the data on the website . the data that users collect is stored on import.io s cloud servers and can be downloaded as csv excel google sheets or json and shared . users can also generate an api from the data allowing them to easily integrate live web data into their own applications or third party analytics and visualization software . for more technical users import.io offers real time data retrieval through json rest based and streaming apis integration with several common programming languages and data manipulation tools as well as a federation platform which allows up to 100 data sources to be queried simultaneously . contents 1 history 2 awards 3 funding 4 features 5 references 6 external links history edit the company has offices in london and san francisco . the company was founded by david white andrew fogg and matthew painter . import.io incorporated in june 2012 and launched into beta in september 2013 . 1 awards edit import.io has won a number of startup awards including best startup by o reilly strata santa clara 2 gigaom 3 and web summit . 4 funding edit import.io has raised a total of 17.3 m 5 from its founders along with angel investors david axmark co founder of mysql andy mcloughlin co founder of huddle software emmanuel javal and louis monier co founder of altavista as well as venture capital firms imperial innovations oxford capital delin capital open ocean capital jerry yang s founder of yahoo fund ame cloud ventures and wellington partners . 6 features edit import.io has a number of features 7 extractors turn unstructured and semi structured data from similar web pages into a structured dataset crawlers convert an entire website s worth of pages into a structured database connector convert any website s search box into a queryable api table auto extract extract a table of data automatically authenticates apis extract data from a site that requires you to log in throughput fast parallelized data acquisition distributed automatically by our cloud architecture uptime high availability even for high volume usage federation query up to 100 unique sources with the same set of inputs to create your own aggregated search data extraction formats data can be extracted as text numbers locations urls images and more ; for easier sorting filtering and metadata retrieval dataset combine up to 100 unique data sources into one dataset client libraries leverage expert approved client libraries for your language integrations generate example code to integrate with your own data sources in the language of your choice tests all data sources are automatically tested twice a day and import.io will notify you if any issues are detected storage all of your data sources are listed in our powerful cloud search infrastructure allowing you to quickly search sort and filter them to get to the data you need references edit sarah marshal data scraping tool for non coding journalists launches journalism.co.uk september 9 2013 winning and strata santa clara import.io blog march 6 2013 stacey higginbotham import.io wins the structure europe 2013 launchpad gigaom september 18 2013 sieuwert van otterloo placemeter and import io winners of the websummit startup competition startupjuncture november 1 2013 crunchbase import.io crunchbase profile crunchbase.com mike butcher import.io raises 13m series a for its data extraction platform tech crunch january 12 2016 1 import.io features external links edit official website crunchbase.com import.io listing official import.io blog retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title import.io & oldid 708160513 categories application programming interfaces navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 march 2016 at 00 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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