Rabbithole@kbin.social to Reddit Migration@kbin.social · edit-21 year agoBoost confirms switching to being a fediverse app after the Reddit app shutdown.www.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1282arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: RedditMigration@kbin.social
arrow-up1282arrow-down1external-linkBoost confirms switching to being a fediverse app after the Reddit app shutdown.www.reddit.comRabbithole@kbin.social to Reddit Migration@kbin.social · edit-21 year agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: RedditMigration@kbin.social
minus-squareTimeSquirrel@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 year 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.