Your method relies on the class names not being renamed (e.g. I see "question-hyperlink" on /questions, not "question-link"). I'd skip the class entirely and ma

Your method relies on the class names not being renamed (e.g. I see "question-hyperlink" on /questions, not "question-link"). I'd skip the class entirely and match on the URL, since I doubt stackoverflow want their URLs to break: /<a[^>]*href="(\/questions\/\d+[^"]+)"/i But... we can go back and forwards posting examples and find fault in any regex that I post or any selector that you post. It's missing the point. Both methods are at the mercy of web page redesigns. Both methods can be made more robust against certain changes, but cannot survive other changes. You are trying to say that regexes won't work. I am saying that both methods work.