People using clojure can get selector based scraping using Enlive instead of JQuery [1]. It also ends up doubling as a templating library. I use it for templating on my website and I use it to scrape Hacker News, though that project the scraping is for isn't ready for launch [2].
1: https://github.com/cgrand/enlive
2: https://github.com/jColeChanged/mysite