Virgin API Consumer vs Chad Scraper

Text on the meme

Virgin API Consumer {JSON} Fears HTML Limited to the what the API can do Has to identify himself even for read-only APIs API Provider takes away his endpoint 429 Too Many Requests Has to worry about quota Thinks that he is making his life easier begs his users for Oauth API keys data is 10 minutes behind has to verify his email, phone, driver’s license, ssn, dna sample has to agree to Terms of Service and follow the rules Tokens Chad third-party scraper follows no rules, doesn't agree to any terms of service scrapes so fast the backend crashes has no limitations can access any data he wants entire industries dedicated to stopping him from scraping website thinks his user agent is a phone Doesn't care about changes in policies promising career at high-frequency trading firm (just scrapes at high first time) Even Javascript can't stop him pays laborers to solve captchas doesn't even have a phone number can work anonymously parses HTML with regex his business is profitable Can do whatever he wants millions of engineer hours, still can’t stop him from scraping

What it means

Мем сравнивает «девственного» потребителя API с чэдом-скрейпером третьей стороны. Первый связан квотами, OAuth, API-ключами, проверками личности и ограничениями провайдера, тогда как скрейпер без правил извлекает данные напрямую из HTML и почти неуязвим для блокировок. Шутка высмеивает парадокс: официальный и законопослушный способ доступа оказывается сложнее, дороже и менее надёжным, чем наглый веб-скрейпинг.

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bald man in blue shirt / лысый мужчина в синей рубашке chain and shackles / цепь и кандалы laptop / ноутбук black pants / чёрные брюки black shoes / чёрные ботинки text labels / текстовые подписи API error message / сообщение об ошибке API JSON logo / логотип JSON orange-shirted muscular man / мускулистый мужчина в оранжевой рубашке blue shorts / синие шорты raised arms / поднятые руки HTML and scraping logos / логотипы HTML и скрейпинга captcha service logos / логотипы сервисов капчи regex and curl logos / логотипы regex и curl web server icon / значок веб-сервера broken chain / разорванная цепь syringe and medical symbol / шприц и медицинский символ magnifying glass / лупа