It depends on what you do with the content: if you're just using it for yourself and can afford it to break at random times, scrapping can be fine (although may

It depends on what you do with the content: if you're just using it for yourself and can afford it to break at random times, scrapping can be fine (although maybe still more time-consuming depending on the website). But if you need predictability and reliability (e.g. you're providing a service to other people) for whatever you implement using this 3rd party service you don't control, relying on their ui that they can break any time they feel like it will lead to more downtime than APIs for which you're usually given some notice before they're deprecated.