From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-05-10T04:37:02+09:00
Subject: Re: How to extract texts from html source?

On 09/05/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> Sam Kong wrote:
> > Hi, all!
> >
> > Quite often, when I need to read a list of web pages, I download the
> > html sources and save them in a single file like a.html.
> > If they are mostly texts, I open the html using web browser, select all
> > and copy it to an editor and save it.
> > I want to make the process shorter.
> > How can I extract the text from html source?
> > I'm sure there're many parsers for it.
> > What is the most convenient one?
> 
> Take a a look at  Michael Neumann's  WWW::Mechanize
> 
> http://www.ntecs.de/blog/Blog/WWW-Mechanize.rdoc
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=427&release_id=2014
> 
> Or install the gem
> 
> James
> 
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Sam
> >
> >
> > .
> >
> 
> --
> 
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> http://www.rubyxml.com
> http://catapult.rubyforge.com
> http://orbjson.rubyforge.com
> http://ooo4r.rubyforge.com
> http://www.jamesbritt.com
> 
> 

You don't need ruby for this:

$ apt-cache show w3m
Package: w3m
[snip]
Description: WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
 w3m is a text-based World Wide Web browser with IPv6 support.
 It features excellent support for tables and frames. It can be used
 as a standalone file pager, too.
 .
  * You can follow links and/or view images in HTML.
  * Internet message preview mode, you can browse HTML mail.
  * You can follow links in plain text if it includes URL forms.
  * With w3m-img, you can view image inline.
 .
 For more information,
 see http://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m

$ w3m -dump http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/quiz/mazes/ | head
A ruby a day!

Ruby Quiz Solutions (Amazing Mazes)

Amazing Mazes

For a full description see: (Amazing Mazes on Ruby Quiz Homepage)[http://
www.rubyquiz.com/quiz31.html]

Another graph algorithm. Create a maze that is fully connected and has only one
$

regards,

Brian

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