At this point you should just consider your HTML/HTTP interface an API because when you use headless browser technology readily available with any programming language it becomes exactly that.
Writing a site-specific browser has always been a fun project for me. It just pulls the information I want directly from my favorite websites. Maximum signal-to-noise ratio and I get ad blocking for free.
People think Javascript-based sites are safer, but it's in fact even easier to access the content because there's usually a programmatic interface available.
Writing a site-specific browser has always been a fun project for me. It just pulls the information I want directly from my favorite websites. Maximum signal-to-noise ratio and I get ad blocking for free.
People think Javascript-based sites are safer, but it's in fact even easier to access the content because there's usually a programmatic interface available.