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Using the steemd API instead of scraping HTML will make your code much more robust. We know people use the steemd API and we try not to introduce breaking changes to it, but the HTML structure of steemit.com pages obviously isn't an API and we feel free to change it as needed, when needed.

Thanks that was the next step I had in mind, but I wanted to experiment.

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