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I don’t want to scrape, but at these price points, small projects where I only need basic user profile data are simply more cost effective with scraping. Some
by spaceman_2020 3y ago
I don’t want to scrape, but at these price points, small projects where I only need basic user profile data are simply more cost effective with scraping.
Some very dumb decisions with their API pricing. How do you go from $0 to $100 to $5,000?
- herbst 3y agoWhen scraping with good expensive proxies is effectively cheaper than using the API the company is doing something wrong
- gorkish 3y agoOr right, depending on your perspective.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoServing API calls is way cheaper than serving scraper bots that load up the full page.
- tracker1 3y agoThe site doesn't mention how many profile lookups are allowed per month at the given tiers... how many user profiles are you looking up? Does this include tweets/retweets? As for the pricing, it's likely they really don't want anyone unlikely to hit the upper tier to even try developing against their APIs to begin with.