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91 points richardzhang | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.282s | source
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Uehreka ◴[19 Nov 24 00:49 UTC] No.42179015[source]▶
This will not end well.

If someone with millions or billions of dollars doesn’t have an official API after operating for years, that’s because they don’t want to have one. You may receive a Cease and Desist letter, or they might block your IPs, or just scramble their markup in ways that are hard to figure out. Whatever their approach, they likely have more money and manpower to throw at stopping you than you have to evade them, especially if you’re doing this to multiple large and powerful companies.

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1. solardev ◴[19 Nov 24 00:53 UTC] No.42179040[source]▶
I'd also be a bit worried about using something like this in production, especially if it's packaged as a npm lib. Even if the original maintainer has good intentions, it'd be all too easy for some malicious actor to offer them a million dollars to introduce a trojan/credential MITM scraper to later versions.