> You can access the html of the website and use regular expressions.

Yes but using regular expressions is the last and least recommended solution, please read : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse...

If you read that link, it’s only not recommmended because people don’t know how to use it. Regular expressions are powerful.

Read the link. Just wondering how you managed to interpret this:

> regular expressions is a waste of time when the aforementioned libraries already exist and do a much better job on this.

as this:

> it’s only not recommmended because people don’t know how to use it

> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse...

It says "can make regex fail when not properly written" etc.

There are different circumstances where using a premade parsing library versus using raw regular expressions are going to make sense.

The answer is not binary.

I thinking that was the joke

You're thinking of another post [0]. Not a joke either, really

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

I can't not mention this infamous SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...