Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A...
by kopakabana on Sunday December 13, 2020 @11:28AM
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Not having an API is short-sighted.
Those who will use your info legitimately will probably use an API, but those who only want your data can hide their IP across a number of cloud agents to extract all of the data from your site regardless of whether you offer an API or not unless you use CAPTCHA.
Those who will use your info legitimately will probably use an API, but those who only want your data can hide their IP across a number of cloud agents to extract all of the data from your site regardless of whether you offer an API or not unless you use CAPTCHA.