libxml2 has an html parser. Everything(ish) has a libxml2 binding. The real PITA about scraping HN is that there's hardly any id/class attributes and you end

libxml2 has an html parser. Everything(ish) has a libxml2 binding. The real PITA about scraping HN is that there's hardly any id/class attributes and you end up with td:nth-child(3).