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No, the load isn't the same because the web page might be a multi-megabyte monster piece of badly-coded HTML that returns only say 10 out of 1,000,000 results a
by kingcharles 5y ago
No, the load isn't the same because the web page might be a multi-megabyte monster piece of badly-coded HTML that returns only say 10 out of 1,000,000 results and needs to be paged through, where the API might return all the million results in a nice JSON chunk.