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by marenkay 2998 days ago
From experience with using carriers tracking information world-wide: scraping will be fine for low volume usage and if we are talking personal use cases.

If this has any professional smell (as in you make money with whatever you use the data for) you will want and need access to each carriers API for several reasons:

- accuracy of data: this is not guaranteed for the web views, they may (and are) usually outdated by hours - volume of updates: carrier APIs usually come with rate limitations and can also require contracts for uses