
API Call for Web Scraping: 5 Patterns (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, JSON-RPC) + When to Skip the API
API call for web scraping picks from 5 protocols — REST (most common, easiest), GraphQL (when the target exposes it, saves bandwidth), gRPC (B2B / fintech, fast), SOAP (legacy enterprise, avoid if possible), JSON-RPC (rare but seen in older APIs). Here are the per-protocol Python snippets + 3 cases where you should skip the API.




