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by TeMPOraL 1105 days ago
Look, if you have a webpage, you're already providing it. If your webpage is of any use to anybody, someone is likely consuming it by scrapping. So if your dedicated API is harder and/or more expensive to provide and maintain than the degenerate API of your webpage's HTML, you're doing something wrong.

I'm not trying to win an argument. I'm trying to point to an obvious reference point for cost/effort behind an API that's handling the same data and interactions the webpage does.