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Show HN: Free API for social post metrics – URL in, views/likes/comments out (pulse.walls.sh)
1 points by patwalls 2 hours ago
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shanewei 1 hour ago
I'm trying to understand the edge here. How is this different from using a crawler + LLM to fetch a page and extract the metrics? Is the main value coverage/reliability across sites?
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patwalls 35 minutes ago
yes, mainly reliability if you're making a lot of calls. if you run this on your own server you'll run into a lot of issues being able to crawl
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