'Everything is now an API': scraping gets an agent-era rebrand
tristanbob · x · 2026-09-20
jacobmparis quips that he's not 'scraping' but 'using your undocumented HTML API'; tristanbob elevates it: everything is now an API — an agent-powered interface — some are just better than others. A snapshot of how agent-era consumption is redefining web pages as machine interfaces.
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