@blogdiva@mastodon.social I have been on a bit of a scraping binge as of late, for reasons that are bad, but one of the thingsI have learned about modern web development is that many web sites begin with a giant json hash with all of the info in a not-entirely-unreasonable semantic tree, that eventually a hundred MB of JS spits out into a bunch of HTML and CSS with 30-character gensym class names. Anyway those json blobs made my life easier, even though every site's parser still had to be custom. Still simpler.