• lime!@feddit.nu
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    6 months ago

    we’re in web 3.0 now, apis and data access are a thing of the past. so scraping it is!

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      6 months ago

      Guess who recently asked a company if he could get access to the API they use to load stuff in their frontend from their backend and got told “Nope and btw scraping is against our TOS”?

      Well, if you won’t give it to me the info that you provide anyway the easy way, I can still take it the hard way. 🤷‍♂️

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        6 months ago

        Maybe you should just try being lucky. I found a critical security vulnerability while working on my scraping project. I told them, they paid me and gave me written permission to scrape.