• Ephera
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    221 year ago

    I used to think projects like Nitter or NewPipe were a bit overzealous, scraping the webpage or using the webpage’s API rather than the official API, but it’s starting to look like simply less of a pain in the butt. 🙃

    • JoYo
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      41 year ago

      get bit too many times and you start wearing gloves.

      • Ephera
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        21 year ago

        Yeah, I just could not imagine a scenario where these companies would close up their API. You don’t offer an API as a service toward others. You offer it, so 3rd party devs don’t scrape your webpage, which is not an ‘API’ you want to keep stable. It’s a service toward your own devs.

    • @big
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      21 year ago

      API - Adversarial Programming Interface