To be honest (and speaking from experience), the only thing that would actually make life hard for a scraper is the last suggestion. I've never personally dealt

To be honest (and speaking from experience), the only thing that would actually make life hard for a scraper is the last suggestion. I've never personally dealt with that, which is the only reason why I concede it. Machine generated HTML is a pain, but I wouldn't call that "very difficult" - it's more like "annoying" in the same way that having to parse HTML instead of finding a neat JSON endpoint is. And I'm not sure how randomly inserted HTML elements would help - if you're already parsing the HTML, you can extract the relevant data. Unless you're trying to parse the HTML with regex, in which case: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...