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Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by mcronce on Monday April 18, 2022 @06:47PM (#31077637)
Writing a scraper for a webpage is typically far more development effort than writing an API wrapper
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Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by johnnyanmac on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:47PM (#31078575)
Yes, but the scraper in this context is already built. A bird in hand and all that.
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Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by mcronce on Thursday April 21, 2022 @10:22AM (#31109785)
In this case, yes, obviously. But as far as "it's likely easier for them to contribute scraping than write a bunch of code to integrate with your API", that presupposes no existing integration.
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