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[โ€“] taiyang@lemmy.world 94 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] kieron115@startrek.website 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

ah yes, the forbidden curl hack