From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-03-01T20:18:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting data from html-ish like crap.


spam_monkey wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted to learn something, and choosed ruby,
> since it looked awesome, and can't say it isn't.
> I am not expierienced programmer (tried some
> Pascal, then PHP), and decided to do something
> small, but usefull. Let's get straight into the
> problem.
>
> At the url:
> https://www.knightonlineworld.com/index.php?pg=rankings&sub=2&radServer=1&clanid=12199
> I've got something similar to html (at least
> it's not table based, but still damn ugly code
> there) with online statistics.
>
> I don't want to parse that one, i just want to
> 'crop that crap' and retrive informations from
> data inside one element a div with an
> id="bleet". There are tables in there, but seems
> impossible to navigate there.
>
> I am really suck at strings :(
>
> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
> <td align="center" >Quatrina</td> # i want this
> <td align="center" >52</td>       #
> <td align="center" >Shaman</td>   #
> <td align="center" >563</td>      # and this one
> </tr> # preferable everything :P
>
> I would want to hash that data, to have it
> usefull in future (aiming a rails app in
> future), but selecting two columns in each row,
> located in the last table in the id'ed element
> placed in not-well-made document looks
> impossible for me. I don't even know where to
> start, and it's FAR away from the things i
> wanted to do (counting numbers*, assinging
> additional data).
>
>
> All i've done already is getting the document:
>
> > require 'uri'
> > require 'net/http'
> >
> > trg = "https://www.knightonlineworld.com/index.php?pg=rankings&sub=2&radServer=1&clanid=12199"
> > puts 'processing' + cel + " :\n"
> >
> > r = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(trg).host, URI.parse(trg).path)
> > 
> > puts r.body

r.body does not contain "Quatrina".