[gabrielcsapo]

all of these web scraping frameworks, doesn't it tell you that the web needs more wide spread semantic markup?

<jobs-list> <job> <employer> YCombinator </employer> <position> ... </position> </job> </jobs-list>

Something like that?

I know what everyone will say, it is so terse and convoluted, but maybe something like

<ul semantic-markup="jobs"> <li semantic-markup="job"> <p semantic-markup="job-employer"> YCombinator </p> <p semantic-markup="job-position"> ... </p> </li> </ul>

Seems like a lot of work though...maybe I take that back.

[nathancahill]

If websites wanted to make their data accessible, they would create APIs. Data on websites is inaccessible for a reason.