Then I feel like we're in agreement then that web scraping is a messy and imprecise art and the flexibility of a scripting language like PHP provides is immense

Then I feel like we're in agreement then that web scraping is a messy and imprecise art and the flexibility of a scripting language like PHP provides is immense. I have no affiliation with plaid, I've honestly only heard negative things about those guys, I was only empathizing with the difficulties in maintaining thousands of different scrapers and why I felt a scripting language provided far more latitude to get things done.