Not sure why you're downvoted. What you're describing is perfectly reasonable. Like you might be scraping a page with no user-generated content. Regex can make

Not sure why you're downvoted. What you're describing is perfectly reasonable. Like you might be scraping a page with no user-generated content. Regex can make a lot of sense because if the regex stops matching, the page probably changed enough that a parser wouldn't stop it from breaking the scraping either.