what a 2019 api client teaches you about modern .net
i've been playing with SerpApi lately. nice service. one GET request and you get structured json for google, bing, maps, news, shopping and about a hundred other search surfaces. captchas and layout changes handled for you. their python and ruby stories are strong. their .net story is a time capsule. the official google-search-results-dotnet package was written around 2019 and it shows. Hashtable parameters. Newtonsoft.Json. a synchronous api that blocks on Task.Result. not a knock on…
