database input via web scraping

[unibroker]

I am building a database of companies and the individual's contact info within those companies. I'm trying importxml and xpath as a way to scrape the associated websites as opposed to copying and pasting the information into a google spreadsheet. I do not care about continually updating the information as it rarely changes. I am trying to extract 7 pieces of information (company, contact, address....). Am I correct in assuming that I have to come up with a unique importxml function for every website because their layouts may be different? Is there a better way of importing this information? Thanks in advance.

[ofnuts]

There are heuristics but unless you can latch on a small number of content identifiers or labels you will end up writing a function for each site, and this will be less efficient than cut and paste....