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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 95 points 3 weeks ago

This reminds me of how I showed a friend and her company how to get databases from BLS and it's basically all just text files with urls. "What API did you call? How did you scrape the data?"

Nah man, it's just... there. As government data should be. They called it a hack.

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

ah yes, the forbidden curl hack

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