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The HTML really is the API.

Writing a site-specific browser has always been a fun project for me. It just pulls the information I want directly from my favorite websites. Maximum signal-to-noise ratio and I get ad blocking for free.

People think Javascript-based sites are safer, but it's in fact even easier to access the content because there's usually a programmatic interface available.



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