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Web scraper vs API — choose the data source by stability, access and maintenance.

Choose between an official API and HTML parsing based on stability, limits, authentication, data structure and maintenance.

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Choose between an official API and HTML parsing based on stability, limits, authentication, data structure and maintenance.

01 / Structure

What matters in practice.

Start from users, data, constraints and the smallest useful end-to-end result.

Choose between an official API and HTML parsing based on stability, limits, authentication, data structure and maintenance.

Connect surrounding systems through APIs, webhooks and explicit error handling where required.

Deploy, check the real workflow and iterate from observed behaviour.

Process

1. Understand

Users, current process, inputs, outputs and constraints.

2. Reduce

Choose the smallest architecture that solves the actual problem.

3. Build

Implement the complete workflow, integrations and edge states.

4. Launch

Deploy, validate real usage and iterate.

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