They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. What now? Things will continue normally until they can't anymore. Assume ...
Probably by scraping. Scraping is what you implement an API to avoid, its basically the client masquerading as a web browser and then extracting the data it wants from whatever the website sends out.
It’s bad for services because iy involves sending much more data and filling more requests. It’s bad for the developer of the client because scraping is more complex and breaks whenever they revise the website layout or anything like that.
But if you’re going to pull a twitter, you get what you deserve.
Probably by scraping. Scraping is what you implement an API to avoid, its basically the client masquerading as a web browser and then extracting the data it wants from whatever the website sends out.
It’s bad for services because iy involves sending much more data and filling more requests. It’s bad for the developer of the client because scraping is more complex and breaks whenever they revise the website layout or anything like that.
But if you’re going to pull a twitter, you get what you deserve.
Ah, fair enough. Thanks for clarifying.