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I do to. Almost every project I've worked on involves an undocumented API. It's still cheaper to devote developer time to reacting to changes than paying to run

I do to. Almost every project I've worked on involves an undocumented API. It's still cheaper to devote developer time to reacting to changes than paying to run headless chrome and evade WAFs

leptons 3y ago
But you can't fully detect the changes without the front-end. When an API changes, so does the official front-end that is interacting with the API. We need to track changes to the HTTP API requests coming from the front-end. You can't detect those changes just by hitting the APIs directly. If the official front-end changes how it sends data to the back-end, we need to change to match it. We also need to detect and react to UI layout changes, and the headless browser is the only real way to do that.