Tal explains how to keep moving when a software vendor won't hand over an API key: capture the network traffic, turn the website's own backend calls into a working integration, and reserve browser automation for the brittle last resort.
Show Notes
This is a practical AI-operator episode about API access when the official path is slow, blocked, or just plain weird. Tal walks through the difference between an official API key, a browser network capture/HAR workflow, and full browser automation — including why the first is preferred, why the second can save a project, and why the third is brittle enough to treat carefully.
- Why every web app has an API, even if the vendor does not expose it cleanly
- How browser network captures and HAR files can give an agent enough context to build a workaround
- Why official API access is still more durable when you can get it
- Browser automation as the last resort: powerful, fragile, and riskier
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