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Tesla releases API pricing, dev says would cost $60 million per year to run his 3rd-party app (electrek.co)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 92 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Another reminder to developers to not bother with public APIs, just screen-scrape or reverse-engineer the official app private API.

[–] glassware@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Really the lesson is, don't run a business that 100% depends on another company.

[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This. It's a recipe for disaster. I think enough (tech-related) companies have shown now, that they first want to lock you in, and then if they got you, want to bleed you out...

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

Virgin API user vs chad scrapper.

[–] auzy@lemmy.world -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Then you're at risk of getting sued for cracking the encryption or the API breaking constantly

The real reminder is don't integrate with devices which you can't trust

[–] auzy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah guys. Downvote me. This is literally part of my day job.

In our industry we call not using an official API a dumpster fire API. Because more than once it has completely broken eventually, and there are a few manufacturers warned will break in the upcoming future

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it illegal to scrape? I mean most companies and governments scrape huge amounts of data all the time without getting anyones permission, hell the entire business of a search engine is basically WeScrape4U.

[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you extract a key from a proprietary client to decrypt a private API, it definitely is illegal. If you do this as a corporation, it would also be easy to detect by abnormal usage patterns tied to your account and presents you as a nice big set of pockets to get sued.

Just screen scraping isn't illegal, but is fragile as fuck and will break at the worst time and you have no ability to implement version control to manage it.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 3 weeks ago

Personally I wouldn't want to be the guy forced to write scrapers with how much they break on any modern site