It didn't fail. People don't want others scraping to protect their businesses. And that's how we've ended up with highly obfuscated HTML. If it failed, it would

It didn't fail. People don't want others scraping to protect their businesses. And that's how we've ended up with highly obfuscated HTML. If it failed, it wouldn't work at all. HTML was designed to display documents, not for scraping purposes. You know what is designed to be scraped? An actual application programming interface.