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by nhance 1015 days ago
If it is a react website that would imply it has an api you could just use directly. Might still need to login to get a token but that's a lot more robust
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Agreed! I always am confused when people screen scrape instead of just monitoring and replaying network requests. Much cheaper and much more robust. Is there anything I'm missing?
I was curious about this myself. Perhaps the pizza request is arcane or buried in lots of other requests?