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An API is a contract. HTML can be tweaked and become incompatible with your parser at the developer's whim.



Oh luckily major APIs never change. /s


Not as easily as an HTML page


That just means your code must be maintained. You can verify that the HTML has a given structure and log a failure if it doesn't.


Use Deep Learning to circumvent that.




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