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Tesla releases API pricing, dev says would cost $60 million per year to run his 3rd-party app (electrek.co)
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[–] 92 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Another reminder to developers to not bother with public APIs, just screen-scrape or reverse-engineer the official app private API.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Then you're at risk of getting sued for cracking the encryption or the API breaking constantly

    The real reminder is don't integrate with devices which you can't trust

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Yeah guys. Downvote me. This is literally part of my day job.

    In our industry we call not using an official API a dumpster fire API. Because more than once it has completely broken eventually, and there are a few manufacturers warned will break in the upcoming future

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is it illegal to scrape? I mean most companies and governments scrape huge amounts of data all the time without getting anyones permission, hell the entire business of a search engine is basically WeScrape4U.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you extract a key from a proprietary client to decrypt a private API, it definitely is illegal. If you do this as a corporation, it would also be easy to detect by abnormal usage patterns tied to your account and presents you as a nice big set of pockets to get sued.

    Just screen scraping isn't illegal, but is fragile as fuck and will break at the worst time and you have no ability to implement version control to manage it.

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