Show HN: Venmo Unofficial API

1. colesantiago ◴[19 Nov 24 02:40 UTC] No.42179624[source]▶

This is actually dangerous.

This is how you see spammers, scammers and grifters target people with fake bots on most platforms and the producer i.e. Venmo traces it to an SDK and will kill all these unofficial API consumers.

And once captchas are introduced it's over, I wouldn't be surprised if stuff like captchas would be implemented more into websites to stop scrapers for good.

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2. HeatrayEnjoyer ◴[19 Nov 24 02:53 UTC] No.42179676[source]▶

>>42179624 (TP) #

Goody idea in 2014 but it is 2024 and AI capabilities defeat nearly all "Prove you are a human" challenges.

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3. colesantiago ◴[19 Nov 24 03:25 UTC] No.42179844[source]▶

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> ...AI capabilities defeat nearly all "Prove you are a human" challenges

Not really, seeing lots of captchas from Arkose, Cloudflare, HCaptcha, etc keep up with this in stopping bots.

4. edm0nd ◴[19 Nov 24 04:59 UTC] No.42180202[source]▶

>>42179624 (TP) #

>And once captchas are introduced it's over. I wouldn't be surprised if stuff like captchas would be implemented more into websites to stop scrapers for good.

lol, not really. Captcha solving services like DeathByCaptcha and AntiCaptcha cost like $1.90 per 1,000 successfully solved captchas. They have APIs and you can easily implement them into your existing code in a few lines.

tl;dr = captchas do nothing and they also do nothing to stop scrapers. its a non-issue.

source: I scrape a lot of things and defeat captchas daily.