Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in data access

Is API better than web scraping?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

APIs vs web scraping: pros and cons of structured data retrieval and HTML parsing for flexible data access.

What is a data API?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: May 7, 2024

APIs allow software systems to communicate. Data APIs simplify data access, provide flexibility, cost efficiency, scalability, and speed.

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