All I want from the Semantic Web is to know if I see that an API follows the standard, things with the same name will be the same kind. For all I care, that API

All I want from the Semantic Web is to know if I see that an API follows the standard, things with the same name will be the same kind. For all I care, that API's underlying model could output to HTML, rendered PNGs, ASCII art or 3D plastic. In particular, scraping the View is pretty much a last resort. If you have to, it's likely that either the source doesn't have the manpower to become semantic anytime soon, or it's hostile to providing easy to parse data anyway.