I mostly scrape government data so the sites are a little 'behind' on that trend, but no. Even JS heavy sites are almost always pulling from a JSON or graphql source under the hood.
At scale, dropping the heavier dependencies and network traffic of a browser is meaningful.
Yeah, reverse engineering APIs is another fantastic approach. They aren't enough if you are dealing with wizards (eg typeform), but they can work really well
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I mostly scrape government data so the sites are a little 'behind' on that trend, but no. Even JS heavy sites are almost always pulling from a JSON or graphql source under the hood.
At scale, dropping the heavier dependencies and network traffic of a browser is meaningful.
Yeah, reverse engineering APIs is another fantastic approach. They aren't enough if you are dealing with wizards (eg typeform), but they can work really well