The following is a dramatization of actual events.

“I need access to these reports.”

“Well, here they are, in the UI.”

“But I need programmatic access.”

“We don’t have an API yet.”

“Fine, I’ll scrape this… Wait… This is Flex. Wait, let me just run Charles… Flex is talking to the back-end using AMF. So what do you mean you don’t have an API? Of course you do — it is AMF. A little PyAMF script will do the trick.”

“Please don’t show it to anyone!”

P. S. That little script was still running (in “stealth production”) months, if not years, later.