Earlier quoted context omitted.
An API is a contract. HTML can be tweaked and become incompatible with your parser at the developer's whim.
Oh luckily major APIs never change. /s
Not as easily as an HTML page
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Google Scholar definitely and intentionally offers no API. I don't see this lasting long...
> See you later
> Too much attention is a bad thing, Sci-Bay decides to stop service for a while. Sorry.
Apparently I was not wrong.
This could be developed as a browser plugin that would be much harder or almost impossible for Google to prevent. Well, a Firefox browser plugin, a Chrome browser plugin presumably they wouldn't allow.