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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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. That drove me away even faster.