Rabbithole@kbin.socialcake to Reddit Migration@kbin.social · edit-23 years agoBoost confirms switching to being a fediverse app after the Reddit app shutdown.www.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up1312arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: RedditMigration@kbin.social
arrow-up1312arrow-down1external-linkBoost confirms switching to being a fediverse app after the Reddit app shutdown.www.reddit.comRabbithole@kbin.socialcake to Reddit Migration@kbin.social · edit-23 years agomessage-square28linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: RedditMigration@kbin.social
minus-squareTimeSquirrel@kbin.socialcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 years agoScraping is hard on a server though. You gotta download the entire page and all its data instead of just the info/action you requested. That’s one of the reasons other websites bother to make APIs, so bots and others DON’T start just scraping them.
Scraping is hard on a server though. You gotta download the entire page and all its data instead of just the info/action you requested. That’s one of the reasons other websites bother to make APIs, so bots and others DON’T start just scraping them.