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I have worked with the site mentioned in the article’s API previously. I am not sure why they used the overhead of a "scraping framework" when it was just JSON they needed to parse.



Perhaps they're used to the Scrapy APIs and tools? I agree that an HTTP requests library would have been sufficient but maybe it was just easier for them to use the framework they're used to.




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