[benibela]

I wrote my own webscraper: https://videlibri.de/xidel.html

The main purpose was to submit HTML forms. You just say in which input fields something should be written and then it does the other things (i.e. download the page, find all other fields and their default values, build a HTTP request from all of them and send that ).

The last 5 years, I spent updating the XPath implementation to XPath/XQuery 3.1. The W3C has put a lot new stuff in the new XPath versions like JSON support or higher order functions, for some reason they decided to turn XPath into a Turing-complete functional programming language.