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[–] yuu@group.lt 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

their work essentially go in the trash

They learned a lot in the process probably, that is the most important for them after all. But relying on API is risky, so always go HTML scrapping. The frontends are super useful for finding information already there without accessing the actual website. Always use Lemmy here for everything else.