From: Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T18:03:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Screen scraping an html text contents into a file



--- Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

By rendering the html, my interpretation of this was
that it is merely a question of stripping tags etc,
which can quickly be accomplished with gsub. Or am I
missing something?

rgds

Steve


		
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