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My guess is hiQ (and others) would happily pay for an API over the data they're scraping right now.
by 0x445442 7y ago
My guess is hiQ (and others) would happily pay for an API over the data they're scraping right now.
- gregmac 7y agoUnless the costs exceed their current operational costs. Don't forget the time spent redeveloping on the new API, which includes validating everything is there, testing and cleaning up and removing the old (working) code.
- munificent 7y agoWhy buy the cow when you get the milk for free?
- munk-a 7y agoThis isn't a great analogy here - getting the data delivered via API is simply more useful than having to re-assemble that data out of fragments parsed off of different web calls. Could I suggest: "Why buy the cheese when you get the milk for free?"