[1vuio0pswjnm7]

"Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors"

For me, "CSS selectors" always seems like a deceptive term, if it means selecting HTML tag elements. What if the website does not use styling.

I read 1000s of websites, including all HN submissions, without using CSS. When I want to extract information from a website, I focus on patterns in the page. They might be HTML, they might be style elements, but they could be anything. I never assume that all websites will wrap the information I want in certain elements. There is a ridiculous amount of random variation amongst websites.

[mmcwilliams]

I'm not sure that CSS being used on the page is a requirement. In the way that `h1 a` would be a valid CSS selector, in this case, would not be require that it be styled by a style sheet.

The key here is that it uses selectors, not the style sheets themselves.

[daniel-s]

You just need to use the same logic, syntax as CSS' selectors to pick out can ntent from the page. That's something a little different to CSS to style.

[1vuio0pswjnm7]

Using CSS selectors, exclusively, is brittle and prone to failure.