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So you're building a service on top of undocumented and private APIs? They could shut you down an instant - no?
by deanclatworthy 11y ago
So you're building a service on top of undocumented and private APIs? They could shut you down an instant - no?
- sjtgraham 11y agoNo. There are a number of things that stop them doing this practically: - Making breaking changes to their APIs break all in-flight clients. This is poor UX for their regular customers if their first party app stops working every week. - App store approval time is a choke point - Internal change control is another choke point - I can find what's changed and deploy a fix in no time.
- deanclatworthy 11y agoWhat if they block the ips you use to power the API? Furthermore, using some simple heuristics it should be easy to fingerprint your API and automate the blocking. Eg A normal user is unlikely to cycle IPs between requests. Your ApI might.