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Considering that most custom scrapers these days simplify their job by using whatever undocumented API the site's javascript might be using (makes the job very easy, but is of course a fragile solution), making the use of undocumented APIs be considered "unauthorized access", even in the absence of a restrictive robots.txt or EULA, would be very bad for a lot of people.


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