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Re:Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for ... by pal9000i on Friday May 02, 2025 @04:36PM (#43874330)
The whole point of AI browser automation is mimicking human behaviour, fighting the anti-bot detection systems. If the point is interacting with systems, we'd be using APIs
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Re:Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for ... by croemer on Saturday May 03, 2025 @12:53AM (#43876931)
...when there is an API. Often there isn't.
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Re:Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for ... by jlpom on Saturday May 03, 2025 @06:11AM (#43878017)
No, it's to automate tasks that can't be done using an API, like RPA.
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Re:Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for ... by nikisweeting on Monday May 05, 2025 @12:19AM (#43891915)
you're saying essentiall the same thing as the parent comment, both are true

anti-bot fingerprinting exists to prevent you from using the human-facing site like an API

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Re:Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for ... by subscribed on Saturday May 03, 2025 @09:33AM (#43878940)
How can I find for myself an affordable accommodation in Iceland across several websites aggregating cheap accommodation but without signing API access contract with all of them and without building a middleware to abstract them?

I don't have API for _that_.

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