DOM navigation for fetching some data is for tryhards. Using a regex to grab the correct paragraph or div or whatever is fine and is more robust versus things moving around on the page.
DOM navigation for fetching some data is for tryhards. Using a regex to grab the correct paragraph or div or whatever is fine and is more robust versus things moving around on the page.
Doing both is fine! Just, once you've figured out your regex and such, hardening/generalizing demands DOM iteration. It sucks but it is what is is.
but not when crawling. you don't know the page format in advance - you don't even know what the page contains!