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Possibly there is some confusion about the word "parsing". If it is just the question of scanning for some substring or pattern on a webpage, sure you can do th
by olavk 11y ago
Possibly there is some confusion about the word "parsing". If it is just the question of scanning for some substring or pattern on a webpage, sure you can do that with a regex. But this is not what is usually considered parsing.
- koide 11y agoRight. And that confusion is probably fueled by the existence of smart (invalid html swallowing) parsers mainly used in scraping, like beautiful soup and nokogiri.