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by showerst 244 days ago
I mostly scrape government data so the sites are a little 'behind' on that trend, but no. Even JS heavy sites are almost always pulling from a JSON or graphql source under the hood.

At scale, dropping the heavier dependencies and network traffic of a browser is meaningful.

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Yeah, reverse engineering APIs is another fantastic approach. They aren't enough if you are dealing with wizards (eg typeform), but they can work really well