Eccehom@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world · 1 年前Reddit right now listed by popular/hotlemmy.worldimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1242arrow-down128file-text
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minus-squarePotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 年前You don’t need APIs to bot. APIs provide a “official” method and make it easier. You can automate web scrapers and bots without APIs since forever.
minus-squareLetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up2·edit-21 年前True, but it was a selling point of the API changes if I remember correctly. Some insane fanboys attacked everyone with stupid arguments like that one when you were critical of the changes. That drove me away even faster.
You don’t need APIs to bot. APIs provide a “official” method and make it easier.
You can automate web scrapers and bots without APIs since forever.
True, but it was a selling point of the API changes if I remember correctly. Some insane fanboys attacked everyone with stupid arguments like that one when you were critical of the changes. That drove me away even faster.