Comment 6 for bug 575557

David, I cant argue with html being a bad api. I'd certainly prefer rest/json.

My plan was to not "release" until there is a real api to access. In the meantime, I'm using the scraping for proof of concept and feature feedback which I hope will foster something better down the road. As it stands today, the farther I get from just replicating the site, the bigger the hit on performance, but at least I can have data to play with.