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Author here. I would say that even though you're grabbing the markup from an API, trying to get structured data from presentation logic still seems closer to RP
by rckrd 5y ago
Author here. I would say that even though you're grabbing the markup from an API, trying to get structured data from presentation logic still seems closer to RPA than not.
And Wikipedia might be an unique example - the markup structure is fairly stable vs. commercial SaaS.
If a competitor offered API access with the data you wanted, you would always choose the API over screen scraping. If a screen scraping business becomes big enough, they usually either partner with the existing sites (i.e. Plaid) or a competitor does.