The Alternative to Web Scraping, Part II

The DRY approach to retrieving web data

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In the previous article, I described how to retrieve data from Yahoo Finance without web scraping. Specifically, we found a way to retrieve the data utilizing XHR requests. From there, we found even more unofficial endpoints with the search functionality in the browser’s developer console. What can we do though if there aren’t…