From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T17:52:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Screen scraping an html text contents into a file

Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I will throw something like this together in Ruby over
> the next days when I get some time and post it on
> RubyForge. I have already done this sort of stuff in
> Java and the concepts just really need a port.All we
> are looking at Basi's initial level of requirements is
> to send an HTTP get, and pipe the response to a file.

Nope, according to the OP's requirements, you also need to render the
html and spit out the rendered version as text, which makes lynx --dump
the right tool for the job. It'd be quite a big task to duplicate this
in ruby, I think.

martin