From: Alder Green <alder.green@...>
Date: 2006-03-24T17:24:20+09:00
Subject: Re: scraping websites

Hey Kev

Take a look at Rubyful Soup:

http://www.crummy.com/software/RubyfulSoup/

Very easy to parse X/HTML source, including the prevalent
not-strictly-correct-and-even-somewhat-corrupt sort.

Regards,
Alder

On 3/24/06, Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@it.fts-vn.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm considering a side-project where I'd have to scrape a couple of
> websites and aggregate the results.  So far I've done a couple of
> experiments with html-parser, but I'm not really happy with it.  I'd
> hate to just throw regexps at the html, so I'm really looking for an
> elegant way to select the correct data from the page.
>
> Any ideas on what gems to use?
>
> Thanks
> Kev
>
>