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Scraping is inherently brittle, but it can be very useful for short-term scraping in very specific circumstances. I haven't had any in maybe 10 years.

IMHO, "untyped" format/delimited file yes. Directly placing/'compiling' in appropriate topological construct/environment works wonders. aka environment of database, spreadsheet, "reports" with information beyond raw data, etc

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