Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads – use the API! – Terence Eden’s Blog

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Summary:
- The article discusses the importance of using APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) instead of web scraping or "crawling" HTML content from websites.
- It explains that web scraping can be disruptive and cause issues for website owners, as it can overload their servers and potentially violate their terms of service.
- The author emphasizes that using the provided API is a better and more respectful way to access and retrieve data from a website, as it is designed for that purpose.

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