• AeroLemming@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Is it any different for an “API”? I don’t think there’s a very big difference between an HTTP endpoint that returns HTML and an HTTP endpoint that returns JSON.

    • krippix@feddit.de
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      6 months ago

      In what way?

      HTML definitely provides more overhead than json if you only care about the data.

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        6 months ago

        Legally. OC stated that NewPipe doesn’t worry about legal threats because they scrape instead of using an official API.

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      6 months ago

      Parsing absolutely comes with a lot more overhead. Especially since many websites integrate a lot of JS interactivity nowadays, you oftentimes don’t get the full contents you’re looking for straight out of the HTML you’re getting out of your HTTP request, depending on the site.