Handinger is an API that makes it easy and affordable to extract data from the Internet—perfect for product builders who need to scrape lots of info. As the Internet gets trickier to pull data from, Handinger simplifies the process for you.
Some months ago, I was building the bookmark manager for fika.bar—which I launched here in Product Hunt. I needed a way to fetch metadata, screenshots, and markdown content of websites. "Easy", I thought. But weeks later, I was building data pipelines, proxy rotation schemes and TLS fingerprinting. Not fun. And not what I wanted to spend my time on: My product was a bookmark manager, not a data extraction service, and yet, most of my efforts ended up there!
It turns out that the Internet has become a difficult place to extract information from. Most websites have implemented measures against it, which makes building products like fika.bar more difficult and expensive than it should be.
Handinger is my attempt to fix this. I extracted the work I'd done for fika.bar and built it into a general purpose data extraction API.
My hope is that Handinger makes it easier and cheaper for people to build products that need data from the internet.
This looks awesome, I've come up with multiple ideas that require scraping and the effort is a always a little too much out of reach. I'll be checking it out soon.
I recommend Handinger for those who need a simple and affordable way to extract data from the Internet. An excellent choice for fast and efficient data extraction with minimal effort.
Congrats on Handinger's debut! As someone who's wrestled with web scraping, I can definitely see the value in simplifying this process.
This could be super helpful! A question: how about scraping data from pages that requires logins? For example: scraping posts from LinkedIn or scraping posts from private facebook groups that only members are allowed to see?
I hope people realise how impressive this is. This is an insanely useful API. Congrats and thanks for your hard work! I love the vibe of the site too, fun brand. 👏
I love it, that's an instant subscription for me. However, how can one tune the size of the screenshot ? At the moment, it only screenshot 1/4 of the page from the top. Thanks !
What stands out to me is how easy it is to set up. No complicated configurations just grab an API key, and I’m ready to go.
Hi Pao,
Congratulations on launch!
How are you able to work with different websites?
Sites have different structures and it seems difficult to process each structure automatically?
