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In the early days of social media tools, everyone scraped. It was the wild west. You reversed-engineered the private API, used headless browsers, and pretended to be an iPhone. Those days are over.

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The Platform Crackdown

Platforms like X (Twitter), Reddit, and LinkedIn have declared war on unauthorized data access.
  • Legal Action: Companies are being sued into oblivion.
  • IP Bans: Entire server blocks are blacklisted.
  • Account Suspensions: Your users get banned for using your tool.

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The Case for Official APIs

Yes, official APIs have limits. Yes, they cost money (sometimes). But they offer one thing scraping doesn’t: Sustainability.
  1. Stability: An official endpoint doesn’t change its HTML structure every Tuesday.
  2. Scale: You can legally request quota increases. You can’t ask for “more scraping throughput.”
  3. Trust: Your customers (especially Enterprise) demand compliance. They won’t use a tool that violates ToS.

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Conclusion

If you are building a serious business, build it on bedrock, not quicksand. Use official APIs (or unified layers like bundle.social) and sleep at night.