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The comments are stupid, the headline is wrong, and you're parsing HTML with regular expressions.

It would be hard to craft a submission worse than this.

The submission was meant to be humorous, sorry to disappoint. No matter how you slice it parsing HTML from a 3rd party site is a major hack, though this does however work nicely (itch scratched). Lastly I have some other ideas for submissions so don't judge this as the worst just yet.

> No matter how you slice it parsing HTML from a 3rd party site is a major hack

WebKit seems to do just fine. I think you're making excuses.

Until the source site changes the URL, or the URL arguments, or the page structure, or the doctype, or the CSS selectors, or the element ids, or whatever it is you key on to ferret out the content you care about. Scraping data embedded in markup not bound to an API spec is fragile regardless of how "properly" you parse it because there is no guarantee of structural consistency.

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