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Re:A Practical Exercise in Web Scraping by mtrimpe on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:33AM (#6915294)
Wasn't there some parser other than Nokogiri which was focused more on being lenient than correct?
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Re:A Practical Exercise in Web Scraping by famousactress on Monday December 16, 2013 @11:29AM (#6915759)
Python, not Ruby.. but Beautiful Soup is a lenient parser and a really awesome library: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
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Re:A Practical Exercise in Web Scraping by zrail on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:36AM (#6915317)
Maybe Hpricot[1]? It's been deprecated for a long time but from what I remember it was much more lenient on the structure of the incoming document.

[1] https://github.com/hpricot/hpricot

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