Grok 4.5 picks WordPress REST API over HTML scraping in a cleaner agent workflow
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-07-24
A post notes that Grok 4.5 found the “easy route” by using the WordPress REST API instead of scraping HTML, with the screenshot showing a plan to probe API pagination and text extraction. It’s a small but practical example of an agent choosing cleaner tooling over brittle scraping.
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