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		shardling on Dec 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun... Parsing arbitrary HTML is not the same as scraping a page for data -- that link isn't really that relevant.

derrida on Dec 9, 2012 [–]

Good point. I simply avoided regex for HTML for this reason and it wasn't justified (although a good choice).

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