[bialecki]

One of my biggest pet peeves with crawling the web is using XPath. Not because I have strong feelings about XPath, just that I use css selector syntax so much, it's a pain I can't leverage that knowledge in this domain as well. Something like this is really awesome and going to make crawling the web more accessible.

[badmash69]

If you are using Java to crawl the web , I would suggest using Jsoup for data extraction -- you can extract data with jquery like methods.

[cosmic_shame]

if you're using python, lxml has a cssselect module that makes this a breeze.

[bialecki]

Very interesting, I'll definitely look into that. Thanks!