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Sigh We went with an API because

2023-10-18 20:20:03.398158+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Sigh. We went with an API because screen scraping was too fragile. Now I'm chasing down a replacement for the API because it went away.

Getting data from the web is broken.

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#Comment Re: Sigh We went with an API because made: 2023-10-18 21:10:53.124547+02 by: meuon

Well.. you do have experience screen scraping ;)

#Comment Re: Sigh We went with an API because made: 2023-10-19 00:20:26.023108+02 by: Dan Lyke

Grin. Yeah, we actually have a fairly nice framework for it...

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