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Re:Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple by torarnv on Friday September 21, 2018 @05:53AM (#18038454)
Did he put up a public API? From the post it looks like the shortcut is constructing a search result url, and then scraping the photo out of that page.
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Re:Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple by kowdermeister on Friday September 21, 2018 @06:29AM (#18038605)
Every URL is kind of an API. Some returns HTML, some JSON.

If I write a custom browser that only loads images from web pages then I'm abusing the internet?

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Re:Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple by pbhjpbhj on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:16AM (#18039117)
You're not abusing the web IMO, however, if you sell that browser there's a good case for contributory copyright infringement as you'd be commercial aiding others in making derivative works from the website owners content.
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Re:Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple by kowdermeister on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:47AM (#18039270)
> however, if you sell that browser

That statement would be true for any webkit based paid browser.

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Re:Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple by catoc on Friday September 21, 2018 @06:37AM (#18038645)
"Every URL is kind of an API"

That is exactly what I meant, but better phrased - thanks.

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Re:Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple by catoc on Friday September 21, 2018 @06:29AM (#18038607)
Not an 'API' in its most commonly used definition - but a publicly accessible interface to his chord search algorithm nevertheless. Wouldn't you agree?
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Re:Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple by briandear on Friday September 21, 2018 @09:39AM (#18039576)
Yes, it’s called a “URL.”
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