Pretty interesting. Wrote a web scraping api you can paste in to your browser and download results last year but took it down to work on another project. You can take look at what a url could look like.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140420162639/http://scrape.ly/

For example if you wanted the profile of authors of today's stories

    http://scrape.ly/s/{http://news.combination.com}
    {'ueoma87'}*{'next':'Next Page'}{'karma':'331', 
    'username':'ueoma87'}

Would've returned all the profiles of each story's author today and yesterday and so on.