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> What I'm thinking of is along the lines of an algorithm that looks for repetition in the HTML structure of the page, and then examines them for the relevant data - could be table rows, divs, paragraphs, lists - trying to be as generic as possible...

Sounds for me like a combination of web mining and cluster analysis! (?)

I doubt that you can find any ready to use modules combining both¹, cause this is a core technology for some big players in web business.

Cheers Rolf

¹) Especially as generic as you asked

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Re^2: Machine learning pattern matching...
by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Dec 31, 2012 at 16:42 UTC

    Not looking for a full solution, but mainly for ideas on what I should be reading up on to build it myself.

    This idea's been floating around in my brain for a while, so I'm giving it some room to see if it grows :)

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