[sprizzle]

It's silly to use BeautifulSoup to parse the page when you could use a simple RegEx:

<td class=\"title\"><a href=\"(.?)\"(.?)>(.?)</a>(.?)</td>

[kaeawc]

"HTML tags lea͠ki̧n͘g fr̶ǫm ̡yo​͟ur eye͢s̸ ̛l̕ik͏e liq​uid pain"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...

[michaelmcmillan]

I am willing to sacrifice my soul and everything that is holy.

[karangoeluw]

Regex to parse HTMl is probably the single worst thing you can do.

[lloeki]

Crafting a wide purpose regex to parse whatever HTML comes in is bad.

Building a regex to extract relevant data from simple, fixed-form page data, bypassing tags irrelevant to the problem at hand is not.

[untothebreach]

...until the HTML changes.

I haven't look at their parsing code, so I have no idea if it is any better than using a regex, but if the regex assumes too much, simply reordering the attributes in a tag (or something similar) could break a regex-based solution.

[joshbaptiste]

Some people, when confronted with a problem... bah you know the rest.

[sprizzle]

Arg, there should be asterisks after every period.

[Goranek]

BeautifulSoup is great, as long as you're using open source HTML5 parser from Google. https://github.com/google/gumbo-parser