I'm just wondering what is worth going through this. Just for "fast-reliable data"? doesn't make sense to me.
I dont weld myself to any platform or data provider ....... Reverse engineering any piece of non-trivial software is expensive in terms of time and resources. Most of the time, it is faster and cheaper to simply write the application from scratch than to reverse engineer undocumented code. my advice ..... move to another platform/provider if this one is not meeting your needs and not providing the customization hooks you need for your business.