Which platform's API/scraping restrictions have burned you the most?
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Building an API that pulls data across 13 social platforms, and the thing that's eaten the most engineering time isn't the scraping itself, it's how differently every platform breaks. Rate limits that change without notice, auth flows that expire silently, structured data one week and a wall of JS the next.
Curious what's bitten other builders here. Which platform has been the worst to depend on, and what did you end up doing about it?
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I did not know I could find a thread that spoke so deeply to me. Building products that rely on Social Platforms are a true pain. Constantly evolving and undocumented changes.