• krippix@feddit.de
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      6 months ago

      In what way?

      HTML definitely provides more overhead than json if you only care about the data.

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      6 months ago

      Parsing absolutely comes with a lot more overhead. Especially since many websites integrate a lot of JS interactivity nowadays, you oftentimes don’t get the full contents you’re looking for straight out of the HTML you’re getting out of your HTTP request, depending on the site.