It’s just a website, but for computers. Instead of returning HTML, that your browser can render, it returns structured data that’s easier to read with a computer program, like a 3rd party app or a bot.
You could just fetch the website and pull information from that, but HTML is awkward to read, and has a lot of data for display purposes that you don’t need for other use cases .
It’s just a website, but for computers. Instead of returning HTML, that your browser can render, it returns structured data that’s easier to read with a computer program, like a 3rd party app or a bot.
You could just fetch the website and pull information from that, but HTML is awkward to read, and has a lot of data for display purposes that you don’t need for other use cases .