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How to reverse engineer a JSON API on a single page application

I was debugging the Bing Image Search. Ctrl+Shift+F in the browser dev tools din’t work to find the request by contents. I’ve used mitmproxy and then found a up-to-date way to filter responses by string in contents in the devtools.

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