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Building and maintaining the scraper is the not cost they would use to measure it internally. It’s the cost to build the API, and support it and perhaps any per
by texasbigdata 5y ago
Building and maintaining the scraper is the not cost they would use to measure it internally. It’s the cost to build the API, and support it and perhaps any perverse incentive it creates where even more data flows out to competitors.
- RobSm 5y agoBuilding API is 5 times easier than building routes for your public webpages, which is basically an 'API' as well.
- wolverine876 5y agoAnd the cost of being scraped.
- jadell 5y agoFor all intents and purposes, this isn't competitive data for them. There aren't really competitors in the space anyway, the barrier to entry is ridiculous. In fact, by law, operators in the industry are required to share this particular data with each other and industry regulators. But they don't share it with outside parties in the aggregate form we need it in. Hence, the scraping.