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Made my backend available as a pay per use API

Hi,

So I have been working on Pipfeed for the last few months now and as part of the app, I had to design an article extractor system.

I saw other systems from Instapaper, embed.ly, etc. But they weren't' that good for my use case. So I made my own using a mix of various technologies.

I don't have a lot of experience in monetizing APIs. So I teamed up with Artem from NewsCatcherApi to make Pipfeed's extract API available to everyone.

Artem is the founder of newscatcherapi.com. NewsCatcherApi lets you search for any kind of news using their super-fast APIs. Think of it as an advanced version of Google News API.

Pipfeed's extract API is also available through NewsCatcher's API on RapidAPI. The link is below

This is what Pipfeed extract API can do:

  • Extract all HTML/summary of any URL
  • "Predict" the category of the article using an A.I. model
  • Get tags, keywords, authors
  • Get the "logo" of the source
  • Figure out which one is the main image
    and lot more.

You can try the API here: https://newscatcherapi.com/news-extract-api

Let me know what you guys think.

on July 29, 2020