UI automation is necessary for accessibility
UI automation is necessary for accessibility
Posted Jul 14, 2026 15:42 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: UI automation is necessary for accessibility by taladar
Parent article: An update on the scraper situation
A million requests is just about 12 requests per second over the course of the day. That's just not a lot even for dynamic content. And what I meant is the total _daily_ limit for a user for all the sites.
Suppose that we have a Scroll-like service for $10 a month, so around 30 cents per day spread proportionally over visited sites. My poor Forgejo was able to serve around 250 requests per second so that 1 million requests would have been exhausted in little more than 1 hour, getting me 30 cents. During that time, my server would consume about 0.6kWh of electricity rendering all that data. So I would get a small profit given my low local prices.
Anyway, the numbers can be tweaked in either direction, with different pricing tiers.
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