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indepndnt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m down with scraping, but “parses HTML with regex” has got me fucked up.
demodawg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
tetelestia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What’s wrong with parsing HTML with regex?
indepndnt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In short, it’s the wrong tool for the job.
In practice, if your target is very limited and consistent, it’s probably fine. But as a general statement about someone’s behavior, it really sounds like someone is wasting a lot of time and regularly getting sub-par results.
257m@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Relevant SO post. stackoverflow.com/…/regex-match-open-tags-except-…
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
13 years ago my god. I wonder what Jon Skeet is doing these days.
I remember when he passed me in the reputation ranking back in the early days and thinking that I needed to be a little bit more active on the site to catch him lol.
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
That was a great read. Thanks!