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Re:Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub by hrasyid on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:45AM (#16636040)
An API is a contract. HTML can be tweaked and become incompatible with your parser at the developer's whim.
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Re:Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub by gkya on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:07AM (#16636523)
Oh luckily major APIs never change. /s
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Re:Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub by hrasyid on Friday March 23, 2018 @08:28PM (#16663881)
Not as easily as an HTML page
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Re:Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub by matheusmoreira on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @06:55AM (#16636939)
That just means your code must be maintained. You can verify that the HTML has a given structure and log a failure if it doesn't.
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Re:Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub by amelius on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:51AM (#16637558)
Use Deep Learning to circumvent that.
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