I should provide a quick update here - I haven't abandoned the project, but have been distracted recently with other commitments.

I've re-factored the app to use the tapatalk interface - it's certainly faster than parsing the html. Thanks to those that pointed me in that direction. The new progress is only in the git repository for the moment, I haven't released a new preview version yet.

I'm hoping to get more time to develop this further soon*.