Why do devs restrict their APIs so much? It's like they

>>57234752
It's less work to do less apis.

Restrict how?

You do realize that a single request that fetches tons of records from a database is not good for performance either, right?

That's why we do paging

>>57234816
Well I work in trade and whenever is try to get the really juicy data from any e-commerce site there is no fucking call.

>>57234869
You're supposed to pay top dollar for that data dumbo. That's how trade works

>>57234894
>people playing for data that can be acquired for free
That's not how it works. The result is me having to write a shitload of crawlers & parsers.

I don't even want to imagine how much bandwidth gets wasted by this.

>>57234752
An API is a contract.
Whatever you expose, you can never take it back. So it's a good idea to keep them minimal

>>57234984
>implying you can waste bandwidth

>>57234984

>I just have to create a shitload crawlers to get the data myself

That what you would be paying for you idiot

Because they are retards that don't know GraphQL.