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This would vary from site to site, and if the HTML of one changes, the "collector" will need to be updated too. It's a ton of work even for a few site, making
by madhouse 16y ago
This would vary from site to site, and if the HTML of one changes, the "collector" will need to be updated too.
It's a ton of work even for a few site, making it generic: yeah, you could do that, but then you'd have to provide unorganised data as a result, which wouldn't be useful at all.
- epynonymous 16y agothat's one of the problems that i considered since html is not that descriptive. i could also see sites purposely changing format just to cause incompatibility if they're not excited about you ripping data from them. i feel that html should be slightly overhauled to add context to all data, so instead of a <td>, it's stock 52 week high or something along those lines. i just had a thought, perhaps rss is the answer! do sites still use that? i kind of feel rss is a dead technology.