“Shredding text” (is scraping) is brittle. Nearly all programmers know this. Especially people that have been using Unix for more than twenty years. Regarding

“Shredding text” (is scraping) is brittle. Nearly all programmers know this. Especially people that have been using Unix for more than twenty years. Regarding you last sentence: yes that’s why I mentioned it didn’t take off in the comment you replied to. But long term scraping will die.