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A comment on “Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API”. Parent comment

Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by dzhiurgis on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:13PM (#34633133)
Scraping is much easier when sites are more accessible.
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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by olliej on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:09PM (#34634597)
Correct, which is why making something accessible and not scrapeable is harder/more expensive than breaking accessibility.
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