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>Have you found that you aren't able to find accessible APIs to request against? I'm scraping from variety of different websites (1000+) that my org doesn't ow
by levi_n 9y ago
>Have you found that you aren't able to find accessible APIs to request against?
I'm scraping from variety of different websites (1000+) that my org doesn't own. Reconfiguring to hit APIs would be complex, and a maintenance problem, both of which I easily avoid by using selenium to drive an actual browser, at the expense of time.
>Have you ever tried to contact the administrators to see if there's an API you could access?
Just not feasible given the scope and breadth of the scraping.
>Are you scraping data that would be against ToS if you tried to get it in a way that would benefit both you and the target web site?
I inspect and respect the robots.txt