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This will allow us to

1. easily write tests that don't hit any real servers
2. add a custom user-agent to all outgoing HTTP requests to make it easy for various sites to block the requests from this app if they want to

Currently the api always just returns status=404 with the same message no matter what (the user might have provided a profile link to an unsupported site, or the user might not exist, or there could have been some temporary network error). It would be nice to provide a little bit more context with the error so the (eventual) frontend can give the user a bit more information.

To implement this we need to get rid of nils in the provider code and replace them with either

a) exception handling, or
b) structured error types (something like Either (Success stats) (Error message)).

Leetcode has some weird graphql API that requires authentication and is not really documented so scraping the necessary data from the profile page might work better