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The whole point of AI browser automation is mimicking human behaviour, fighting the anti-bot detection systems. If the point is interacting with systems, we'd be using APIs



How can I find for myself an affordable accommodation in Iceland across several websites aggregating cheap accommodation but without signing API access contract with all of them and without building a middleware to abstract them?

I don't have API for _that_.


No, it's to automate tasks that can't be done using an API, like RPA.


you're saying essentiall the same thing as the parent comment, both are true

anti-bot fingerprinting exists to prevent you from using the human-facing site like an API


...when there is an API. Often there isn't.




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