Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access

The fashionable fitness-tracking platform, Strava, is restricting entree to its API arsenic portion of efforts to clamp down connected AI scraping, arsenic reported earlier by TechCrunch. Developers who privation to physique an app utilizing Strava's information present request to wage for a level $11.99 / period subscription.

In an update on its developer hub, Strava blames the alteration connected "zero-code AI tools" that let users to rapidly make apps that "hammer" APIs. "We person felt this firsthand - developer applications to our programme are up 448% year-to-date, API intermediaries person violated argumentation terms, and scraping attempts person degraded level show for everyone," the institution wr …

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