If it delivers accurate data then I can hit that instead of scraping the full HTML. Everybody wins.
What I have found, however, with existing standardization of this kind of data (yours is not the first!), is that shopping sites (big ones) will lie, and you still need to read the HTML as ground truth.
What I have found, however, with existing standardization of this kind of data (yours is not the first!), is that shopping sites (big ones) will lie, and you still need to read the HTML as ground truth.