I need data from a website. It is viable to create an API that scrapes the website and returns the data on an endpoint?

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  • Spidey

    A multi threaded web crawler library that is generic enough to allow different engines to be swapped in.

  • Didn't get a chance to reply earlier but depending on what you're trying to do, you might want a web crawler. I have a crawler on Github that I built for scraping in instances where someone doesn't have an API. If you go this route, I suggest doing it as a background task and go off cached data.

  • changedetection.io

    The best and simplest free open source web page change detection, website watcher, restock monitor and notification service. Restock Monitor, change detection. Designed for simplicity - Simply monitor which websites had a text change for free. Free Open source web page change detection, Website defacement monitoring, Price change notification

  • Something that comes to mind here, about the changing of the website. A deployment of https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io might help to notice when the API has to be updated.

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