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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win11.shading291 February 17, 2025, 11:34pm 3

Ok thanks, so it’s kind of like reverse engineering.

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