data is
rarely discussed. More often than not, researchers resort to the quick
and dirty technique of scraping entire html pages from
<code>eur-lex.europa.eu</code>. This is not the optimal, nor preferred
(from the perspective of the server host) approach of retrieving data,
however, especially as the Publication Office of the European Union, the
public body behind Eur-Lex, operates several dedicated APIs for
automated retrieval of its data.</p>
<p>The allure of web scraping is completely understandable. No