Day 5 of building ScrapeForge
Today felt like hitting a goldmine.
I figured out a practical way to reverse engineer backend APIs and access data directly before it is consumed by the frontend.
What really stood out was how many applications expose these APIs with limited safeguards or monitoring in place.
This was a strong reminder that APIs are often the weakest link in many systems.
Lesson from today: always protect your APIs and watch for suspicious usage.
On to Day 6.
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Nice progress — it’s always interesting to see how the early days of a build take shape, especially with a tool like Scrapeforge where the scope and edge cases can expand quickly.
One thing I’ve noticed in early scraper/automation builds is that error handling and adaptivity to DOM changes becomes more important the more sites you try to support — small structural changes can break everything if it’s not accounted for.
Curious — at this stage (day 5), are you thinking more about depth on a few target sites first or broad support across many? That choice often shifts priorities between robustness vs coverage early on.