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The site uses the old Google Analytics format. Upgrade it.

https://github.com/ericchiang/pup

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18274253/how-to-search-for-class-names-in-a-html-file-using-regex has a .NET one that looks cool.

Please add comments here if you find a page that has good explanations that we can cut'n'paste into htmlparsing.com

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-to-parse-and-process-html-with-php

This thread on StackOverflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28221901/exclude-the-beginning-from-the-regex

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13915614/extracting-html-fields-through-xpath

Nokogiri at the very least.

Right now the header says "How to parse HTML", but it should say "How to parse HTML with Perl" or whatever the language is.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15840996/remove-html-tags-in-c/15841056

I just checked the PHP page of this thing.

Imho explanation is too much lacking. So the people who need this site will have no use for it at all in its current state.

They will simply look at it and think "why would I need that simply to get the attribute of my div??" and continue using their crappy regex patterns.

Same goes for libxml_use_internal_errors(true);. People have no idea what it does and how to use it. So they either try removing it and are hit by errors or they just leave it in place (or use it from now on everytime they need to parse html).

However because the error state is never reset in the example code this may very well result in a genuine WTF when people are trying to debug code.