Looks ok. I agree with author many people roll their own. Depending what you want to scrape, this might work better for you. https://www.mashape.com/stremor/s

Looks ok. I agree with author many people roll their own. Depending what you want to scrape, this might work better for you. https://www.mashape.com/stremor/stremor-content-extractor-fast-web-page-extraction-for-simple-and-magazine-templates#!documentation https://www.mashape.com/stremor/stremor-content-extractor-fa... It will scrape articles even if they are in multiple divs. It even works on magazine layouts like TheVerge.com that doesn't work in Readability (py, api, or js).