Kimono Labs

Kimono Labs was a developer-tools startup that let users turn any website into a structured API without writing code, using a visual point-and-click tool to define data selectors that Kimono would crawl on a schedule and expose as JSON/CSV endpoints and RSS feeds. Founded in 2014 by Pratap Ranade and Ryan Rowe and backed by Cowboy Ventures, the company was acquired by Palantir Technologies in February 2016, after which the hosted cloud service at kimonolabs.com was shut down on 29 February 2016; a downloadable Kimono Desktop application was released as a farewell so existing scrapers could continue running locally. The company is defunct and operates no live API today; this profile is retained for historical and network completeness.

Kimono Labs is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Developer Tools, Web Scraping, Data Extraction, and No-Code.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyDeveloper ToolsWeb ScrapingData ExtractionNo-CodeWeb APIsDefunctAcquired

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kimono-labs.png
name: Kimono Labs
description: Kimono Labs was a developer-tools startup that let users turn any website into a structured API without writing
  code, using a visual point-and-click tool to define data selectors that Kimono would crawl on a schedule and expose as JSON/CSV
  endpoints and RSS feeds. Founded in 2014 by Pratap Ranade and Ryan Rowe and backed by Cowboy Ventures, the company was acquired
  by Palantir Technologies in February 2016, after which the hosted cloud service at kimonolabs.com was shut down on 29 February
  2016; a downloadable Kimono Desktop application was released as a farewell so existing scrapers could continue running locally.
  The company is defunct and operates no live API today; this profile is retained for historical and network completeness.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kimono-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- cowboy-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-reason: Hosted service shut down 2016-02-29 following acquisition by Palantir Technologies; DNS for www/api/docs
  hosts no longer resolves.
x-acquired-by: palantir
x-defunct-date: '2016-02-29'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Developer Tools
- Web Scraping
- Data Extraction
- No-Code
- Web APIs
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence