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Re:APIs Are Forever, Wait No...They Can Go Away at Any Time by sad_panda on Friday April 20, 2012 @10:54PM (#3870713)
OMG, what?

Scraping data for offline processing, but certainly should not be for user-facing traffic. Cosmetic tweaks can blow up the scraper's parser, UI technologies are built on a taller stack and are prone to higher latencies and points of failure, yada yada.

Re:APIs Are Forever, Wait No...They Can Go Away at Any Time by puxedo on Saturday April 21, 2012 @02:37AM (#3871131)
Indeed. Very risky. Scraping is not really a sustainable model when you need predictability. Too many variables.