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The point is to move beyond APIs. Being able to perform actions on a site, with the ability to perform the task successfully even if the site slightly changes
by jawns 2y ago
The point is to move beyond APIs. Being able to perform actions on a site, with the ability to perform the task successfully even if the site slightly changes under the hood, is a lot less brittle than interacting with an API.
- jsheard 2y agoThat's sounds significantly more brittle than a well defined API to me, especially given the prevalence of CAPTCHAs and other anti-bot heuristics.
- lenerdenator 2y agoAgreed. Now you're throwing in a presentation layer to wrangle with, and that presentation layer is HTML/CSS/JS, which is the thorniest presentation layer out there. Or, HTTP POST.