this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2024
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I exclusively browse with cURL and manually parse HTML myself the old fashioned way
Why parse the HTML manually when
sed
is a standard utility and you can use it to parse it with regex?Ooh, it's my turn to link this beauty.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags
Insert copypasta of angry nerd ranting about using regex to parse html.
Its a valid rant, ditto to email