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How would I go about creating an alternative frontend for a website? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by Debuholden@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Ok, so I've been thinking for a bit, and I know there's a ton of alternative "libre" frontends for websites like YouTube and Reddit. However, I was thinking: what If I just wanted to make my own frontend? Not specifically for the intentions of "libre", but I wanted to change the controls and appearence of the website. I'm honestly unsure of how to approach this. Any thoughts?

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[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Scrape the website instead of using an api if the website offers it

[–] JerukPurut404@lemmy.my.id 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why not using the api? The requests can also be proxied for more secruity

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because of situations like reddit

[–] JerukPurut404@lemmy.my.id 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah but not every site like reddit.