In my ongoing efforts to learn F# properly, I recently stumbled upon the F# Data library, which implements type providers and other useful tools for working with data in CSV, HTML, JSON and XML formats. To try it out I hacked together a quick .fsx script which uses the library’s HTML parser to scrape the top three F# posts from one of my favorite programming websites, dev.to. Please note that the site does have an API, which would be the preferred way of doing this, the following is for dem...
