From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-05-31T03:16:45+09:00
Subject: Trying to download files using WWW::Mechanize

Hi all,

Ruby 1.8.4
www-mechanize 0.4.5

I've got a web page.  On that page are a series of links to .csv files.
I need a way to download a particular csv file.  This file can either be
loaded into memory or onto the local filesystem - either way is fine.

I've gotten this far:

require 'mechanize'
include WWW

mech  = Mechanize.new
agent = mech.get(url)

page.links.each{ |link|
   p link
}

With that, I can see the links to the .csv files, which look like this
on inspection:

#<WWW::Link:0x33945a0 @node=<a href='foo_May_29_2006.csv'> ... </>,
@text="foo_May_29_..>", @href="foo_May_29_2006.csv">
#<WWW::Link:0x3393898 @node=<a href='foo_May_30_2006.csv'> ... </>,
@text="foo_May_30_..>", @href="foo_May_30_2006.csv">

How do I grab a particular file and load it into memory or onto the
local filesystem?  I tried using the 'text' method (based on the
examples file) but that didn't seem to work for me.

Thanks,

Dan


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