Ask HN: Can any code be made to look pretty?

Generally I put in a little extra effort to make my code pleasant to look at and easy to understand. Right now, however, I'm working on a web scraper and I just cannot get this thing looking nice on the back-end. It simply requires so much massaging of the data that it seems impossible to abstract the hairiness away. I can get it to a moderately understandable and maintainable point, but I don't know if this code can ever be pretty.

Do you think that all code can be made attractive, or are some things just too hairy?