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by throwaway2993 1693 days ago
I wrote a scraper a couple of years ago to get a single data point from a website where my client was already a paying customer. This website had an API, which they were also paying for, but the API didn't cover that data point, so at the time they had one of their admin people populating that missing piece of data manually, which was taking them around ten minutes a day.

I asked them if my customer could pay to access this data point via their API and they quoted 3600 EUR/month! Enter the scraper...