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Thanks! I'm sure you're right - in the past developers will have simply consumed each source's API within their app, which is exactly what I did to begin with.

The algorithms will need maintaining, especially in the case of the scraped sites. I'll be relying on this service for my main project so it's something I'd need to keep track of anyway.

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so thats a solid no to open sourcing it?

It's not something I had intended to do, but I could do. That would make it much more manageable to scale because the community could maintain the algorithms, which takes long enough for the 24 sources I already have that I'm hesitant to add more right now.

It's written in C# though, I can see that being a problem.

I dont see it being a problem considering the big pushes that Microsoft has been making in to getting people into their language ecosystem.

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