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Well, it's as slow as the website you're scraping. Could actually be faster if you don't have to execute a lot of bullshit JavaScript. And for the rest clever caching should help.
In terms of technology you're looking for XSLT, Xpath, CSS selectors and whatever parsers are available for your language of choice. Don't ever attempt to use regex for scraping.
seconded
Proceeds to implement a scraper in bash with grep and awk because it's the only way i know how to
Why not at least use Python?
I've always been searching for the time to learn python, but between uni and work i wake up at 5 and go back home at 10; + they where not going to pay me for this fix
Tldr; couldn't be fucked to study a whole other language in my nonexistent free time for a fix that they wouldn't pay me for anyways
You've given me a great jumping off point, thank you!