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minus-squarePotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoYou don’t need APIs to bot. APIs provide a “official” method and make it easier. You can automate web scrapers and bots without APIs since forever.
minus-squareLetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoTrue, but it was a selling point of the API changes if I remember correctly. Some insane fanboys attacked everyone with stupid arguments like that one when you were critical of the changes.
You don’t need APIs to bot. APIs provide a “official” method and make it easier.
You can automate web scrapers and bots without APIs since forever.
True, but it was a selling point of the API changes if I remember correctly. Some insane fanboys attacked everyone with stupid arguments like that one when you were critical of the changes.