{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Bit Shift (bitshift)'s status on Monday, 09-Jul-12 23:28:54 UTC","author_name":"Bit Shift (bitshift)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/bitshift","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1662155","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/798\" class=\"url\" title=\"Ice Cream Stepman\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">redenchilada<\/span><\/a><\/span> Well, the biggest issue with scraping is that it can be prone to breaking when the HTML structure changes, but if you're building for one site, and that site isn't upgrading any time soon, you should actually be pretty safe. (Of course, it's still a tedious process compared to having a proper API, but that's neither here nor there.)"}