Following this topic, since the original topic is completely different from this question, I’m creating a new topic.
How does a frontend work when they don’t access the API (because $)? What does it mean to “scrape” a website to make the frontend?
scraping a website is when a software requests the normal URL instead of the API and uses the HTML or other aspects it gets to “Scrape” the site and retrieve and return the values.
If you want a demo I can make a python software with the requests library.
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Ok thanks, so it’s kind of like reverse engineering.
In a very high-level definition, reverse engineering means deconstructing a software application and understanding how it works.
“Scraping” can be more comparable to downloading website data repeatedly but on a much larger scale.
In other words, think about it as if you are downloading certain files across the internet but the process is automated completely.
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