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"I want piece of information from page programatically but there's no API." Common ask, especially in anything dealing with secondary markets (card balances, i
by whatsmyusername 6y ago
"I want piece of information from page programatically but there's no API."
Common ask, especially in anything dealing with secondary markets (card balances, information on sales, shoe drops, etc)
API will be much faster, but there's a place for this.
This is also common when talking to IVR systems (ex. I want a card balance, have some code call the phone number on the card, walk through the phone tree, and use voice reg to get the number)
- paulryanrogers 6y agoAPIs may also present the data differently, not have all the data, require payment, or have much lower rate limits than a browser solution. (Disclosure: work at a SAAS that does both and have done some for personal projects.)