• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, I just could not imagine a scenario where these companies would close up their API. You don’t offer an API as a service toward others. You offer it, so 3rd party devs don’t scrape your webpage, which is not an ‘API’ you want to keep stable. It’s a service toward your own devs.