How is Untangly different from EAI, XML, SOAP, REST and other APIs?
All of the buzzwords above represent attempts to get developers to build things a specific ways so that systems can easily talk to each other. This works for some people, but most websites are not built using any of these standards. We’re taking on the hard problem of untangling the web the way it is. Websites aren’t all the same, but they aren’t all that different either: they all send and receive information from web pages that are rendered in browsers. Untangly is an easy way for developers to create integrations that read from and/or write to any web page. Potentially more important, Untangly provides the infrastructure to easily maintain these integrations indefinitely. Untangly isn’t an academic exercise in defining and evangelizing standards or a series of recommendations on how to re-factor your code. We are building the plumbing and infrastructure so you can easily and reliably interact with websites that don’t do these things.
