screen scraping – Automated Hacks

Flickr API Origins: How 1995–1998 Web Scripting and CGI Shaped Media-Sharing Integrations (Chapter 85)

Flickr’s API arrived years after the web learned to stitch systems together. This chapter traces the 1995–1998 building blocks—forms, CGI, early JavaScript, and pragmatic “API-like” endpoints—that made media-sharing integrations possible.

Chapter 53: The Birth of the Web and Early HTTP Interfaces—How 1990–1994 Set the Stage for Open Banking APIs

In the early 1990s, the Web’s simplest idea—request a resource with a URL over HTTP—quietly introduced patterns that would later define open banking APIs and financial data portability.