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81 points ananddtyagi | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 18:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.321s | source

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nerdsniper ◴[28 Aug 25 20:58 UTC] No.45056961[source]▶

Why use a "web bot" instead of an API? Either can be driven by an AI "agent"...but this just seems like an "API key for a visual api interface", and rather wasteful in cost and resources. If a company could afford to pay a partner for an API key they wouldn't need this. If they can't afford to pay the partner for access -- they'd still be blocked with or without "Web Bot Auth". I don't understand what this is for.

I suspect I'm missing something, what am I missing?

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1. mediaman ◴[28 Aug 25 23:45 UTC] No.45058300[source]▶

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The website the human sees is the new API.

That's needed because many APIs are either nonexistent or extremely marginal in design and content coverage.

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