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My first thought was there are now 15 competing standards, I hope at least this is semantic web or at least scrape friendly.


"at least scrape friendly"

Decidedly not. If you disable javascript for a search, you get a mostly empty page back.

The results themselves do come from an api at benchmarker.fr, but it wants a bearer token.


We provide an open search route API :

https://benchmarker.fr/opensearch?q={searchTerms}

You can then configure a redirection folowing these guidelines:

  <Url type="text/html" template="https://alternative-a.com/en/search">
    <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
    <!-- other Params if you need them… -->
    <Param name="view" value="list"/>
    <Param name="sort" value='["reduction","DESC"]'/>
  </Url>

Can you precise, why would you scrape Alternative? Your answer will help us define the next priorities.


That's true, we build Alternative knowing the advantages and drawbacks of the market. Besides data, we tried to build tools that help you to make your choices. We relied on scraped data and reviews.




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