• bobaduk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s just a website, but for computers. Instead of returning HTML, that your browser can render, it returns structured data that’s easier to read with a computer program, like a 3rd party app or a bot.

    You could just fetch the website and pull information from that, but HTML is awkward to read, and has a lot of data for display purposes that you don’t need for other use cases .