• BatrickPateman@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Scraping ia nice for static conten, no doubt. But I wonder at what point it is easier to request changes to a developing thread via API than to request the whole page with all nested content over and over to find the new answes in there.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Following a developing thread is a very tiny use case I’d imagine and even then you can just scrape the backend API that is used on the public page for the same results as private API.