Scraping prevention is such a backwards thing to me. Like, I *would* use your API and save us both a lot of headaches, if you didn't put it behind a bunch of bullshit hoops that make it fundamentally incompatible with open-source projects! Why is the API (which costs you less resources to run) more restrictive and guarded than the very-expensive-to-process-requests-for user frontend?

(Obviously not talking about scraping personal data or posts here, that's an ethical problem regardless of access mechanism. This is about actually public data - rail data, commercial data, technical specifications, and so on.)