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KAPOW - Create APIS from HTML Sites
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Easily one of the coolest technologies that I saw this morning at MashupU was Kapow. I sat down and wrote a Flex app with Andreas Krohn of Kapow and I walked away impressed. This is a really great resource for Flex/Flash developers. Kapow is a combination of service and a desktop IDE that lets you build and deploy robots(agents) that run on OpenKapow.com. See there are about 400 sites with APIS but with kapow, every site becomes an API. You simply write an robot to do stuff when it is called and it returns async as a REST/JSON result set. In Andreas's talk he made a Robot to retrieve addresses from Whois website and mapped the results into google maps. Considering the data was pulled live from a public website was killer.
I will be working with Andreas to make sure that Flash Player can talk to this API seamlessly via crossdomain.xml from any domain and that we have some higher level Flex components to work with Kapow.
THE ROBOTS ARE COMING! THE ROBOTS ARE COMING!
Ted :)
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It's nice application, I looked at it last month.
But I couldn't figure out the deployment thingy, seems you can deploy the robot to their site only and use it in your apps.
What if I want to keep robots on my site?
Since I didn't much time on it, I might have not noticed these features, if they are there...
Thanks
-abdul
Abdul,
True, with openkapow, robots must be deployed to our servers. However, we also have an Enterprise version that facilitates deployment to your own site.
Cheers, Al.
Kapow SE