of course, I think everyone here would agree it's always good to have an API... too bad you're not gonna succeed in pushing this "rule" out, especially scraping stuff...bot bans are in part because it's rather easy to overload the system with bot calls, which, since they use same page as users, will also affect normal users...especially taxing if the page is dynamic with server-side stuff, like maybe some aspx or php page, which at best would just hog the system resources, at worst could possibly break altogether (most likely due to no free ram), etc... I'm no expert tho, so these specifics might be wrong...