On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, exactly, "us" meant "KTp". The fact that proprietary APIs (and even > more > so HTML parsing hacks) may change at any point, breaking KTp components > that > rel on them, was one of the central reasons why KTp chose to focus on open > protocols in our vision. So that we can say "Sorry, user, Facebook is not > our > focus, so please do not demand from us to make it work". > > Of course whether things are released/maintained by KDE as a whole has to > be > decided by KDE as a whole, but KTp should stay clear of having to play > catch- > up with Facebook's HTML structure. > As a person who has done a decent amount of web-scrapping: web-pages do not actually change that much. Also they have fewer restrictions than official APIs. -- Vishesh Handa
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