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by rickyc091 4511 days ago
"That particular company’s APIs use JSON but they can’t give me access to the APIs, which I do understand. So instead I was given a URL to an RSS feed to work with. While that makes the task a bit harder for me since I never had to parse RSS feeds before, it also makes it even more pointless."

The company could have just as easily saved a copy of the results from the private JSON api.