Solution
Untangly makes it easy to create and maintain integrations with other websites. We untangle the web by providing a lightweight, no-code way for you define how you want to read information from and/or write information to any website.
Untangly Bot Builder
The bot builder is the interface through which you define how you want to read from and write to websites. The bot-builder is a downloadable firefox add-on which provides a no-code visual interface through which you can program Untangly to:
- Select a web page
- Identify and name fields on specific web pages
- Define reading and writing behavior for each field
The bot builder includes heuristics to crawl and map entire websites so you can more easily create and update entire sets of bots.
Untangly Bot Server
The bot server runs your bots! The bot server is designed to handle massive scale. The primary functions of the server include scheduling bots, running bots, storing bot run results and error handling. Untangly runs the bot server in our cloud so you don’t have to worry about it.
Error Handling
The web is an unruly and ever-changing place. This means that the bots you create today are bound to stop working eventually. Untangly error handling informs you when your bots fail. It’s up to you whether you choose to manage the failure / update cycle yourself or outsource the task of maintaining your bots to our reliability team. (For an additional fee, of course)
Untangly API
Developers use the Untangly API to manage their bots, including:
- Instructing Untangly when to run bots,
- Consuming data created by successful bot runs,
- Consuming error alerts (if you don’t want them sent as emails).
Reliability Team
Some of the bots you create are bound to fail. If you don’t want to handle bot failures yourself, you can hire our global reliability team to respond and get your bots back up and running. This means you don’t have to constantly monitor your integrations because we’re doing it for you.
What is a bot?
A bot is an automated script or process which performs a job. Here at Untangly a bot is a set of instructions of what to do with a specific web page. For instance, a single bot might instruct Untangly to:
- Log in to a website using a specific username and password,
- Publish data stored on your server into a form on that website,
- Read specific information from the results page,
- Store and publish this information to the Untangly API where you can grab it and display it in your own web application.
Untangly is designed to create, manage and run lots and lots of bots.
