Comment by dredmorbius
2 months ago
I know that.
I've not worked with the API, and there's the blessing/curse (blurse‽) that HTML is a known, if poor, standard.
API always translates to "one more thing to learn, that's applicable to a single-use case". HTML scraping / sorting I can apply across multiple sites.
That said, a standard, say, JSON packaging of website contents available on request might be fun to have.
I feel less bad hammering firebase in a "while True:" loop vs hitting HN's servers.
12,000 times less bad? <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868910>
Between me and you, I don't think Google would register that amongst the noise of just running the service anyway on their monitoring systems.
You're right to point out that if you're trying to get the contents of dead objects the API is of no use though.
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