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Guide advises developers to prioritize APIs over web scraping for data access

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A technical guide advises developers to prioritize using official APIs or data feeds over web scraping when gathering data from websites. It recommends a step-by-step approach: first check for an official API, then a data feed or export option, then consider directly asking the site owner, and finally review the site's terms and robots.txt file. The article argues that APIs are more stable, structured, and less burdensome on website operators than scraping. It suggests that scraping should only be a last resort and should be done politely by identifying the bot, respecting rate limits, and caching data.

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