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mcronce
on April 18, 2022
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Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
Writing a scraper for a webpage is typically far more development effort than writing an API wrapper
johnnyanmac
on April 19, 2022
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Yes, but the scraper in this context is already built. A bird in hand and all that.
mcronce
on April 21, 2022
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case, yes, obviously. But as far as "it's likely easier for them to contribute scraping than write a bunch of code to integrate with your API", that presupposes no existing integration.
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