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This reminds me of how I showed a friend and her company how to get databases from BLS and it's basically all just text files with urls. "What API did you call? How did you scrape the data?"
Nah man, it's just... there. As government data should be. They called it a hack.
ah yes, the forbidden curl hack
When getting data legitimately is beyond them…