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by nowahe
1500 days ago
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Having bought a few artist compilation on it, after clicking 5 links manually I resorted to writing a script to parse the webpage and get the links there. But what's even worse is that their CDN throttles your IP after ~15 downloads and you have to wait 1-2 hours before you can download again (which I've already hit a few times, even while clicking on the links manually) |
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Granted, that means still a third step to orchestrate - auth ending in cookie capture, then album list fetch and reconciliation, and finally (on the other end of some queue) album downloading. Thank goodness they didn't make it too simple, I guess - I'd have hated for their annoyingly inconsistent login captcha to have been the last arbitrary challenge I had to overcome.
(I can't fairly give them too hard a time, I suppose - they're doing an incredible amount with a tiny team and in that context even having pulled their public API is reasonable, however much I wish they hadn't. Just that it'd be nice if they had the scope for dealing with use cases that aren't the adversarial mirroring they've clearly optimized against...)