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Jul 1, 2026 · Backend Development

Tired of Writing Crawlers? Build a Cross‑Platform Hotspot Dashboard with a Single API

After battling captchas, IP bans, and constant code rewrites while scraping social‑media hotspots, the author switched to RedFox's API, built a lightweight Python‑Flask and HTML dashboard focused on AI programming tools, and cut maintenance time and costs by more than half.