[diminoten]

I find it preferable to determine the requests that jQuery is making and perform them myself to extract the necessary data, rather than load up a whole browser just to do the same thing.

Selenium is terrible, performance wise, and requires a significant investment in environment in order to work reliably. I try to avoid it except when I absolutely cannot.

[ArbitraryCrow]

I wound up doing this myself, after spending an undue amount of time struggling with a morass of insanely written Javascript. Fiddler proved indispensable for observing the actual interaction with the web server.