"API" bullshit.

To web service providers:

Don't make me register for an "API key" or whatever you call it just so you can get my personal info and log, throttle, or charge for my requests for a subset of the data that I can already get freely via your app or website. Don't spread the misconception that your "developer API" is the only way to get at your data.

To "developers":

Don't beg and whine for an API when you can just use your fucking browser or their app to see the data already. Learn what View Source can do for you. Don't be mislead by web service providers who peddle their stupid API bullshit just so they can exert more control over you.

>>8

most regex engines are more than simple regular expression parsers

Maybe the cancerous ones

Your point being?

I'll spell it out for you, pinhead: Square peg, round hole

>>9
You should realize by now that absolutely nothing is one off. Have fun dicking with your RE every time there is a subtle markup change or inconsistency.

>>10

Maybe the cancerous ones

Regex engines that implement lookahead/lookbehind are able to parse more than just regular languages. Pretty much every decent engine out there supports them.

I'll spell it out for you, pinhead: Square peg with rounded corners, square hole.

Either way, using regular expressions for parsing HTML is retarded. Not impossible but not a good idea.

HTML is verbose XML shit anyway.