From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-05-31T03:47:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to download files using WWW::Mechanize

Berger, Daniel wrote:

 > ...
> 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.
> 

I'm thinking you need to grab the href value, glom it onto the base URL, 
and use that with, say, open-uri, to fetch it.

page.links.each{ |link|
    if link.href =~ /\.csv$/
      full_url = url + link.href
      # Go read that URL  ...
    end
}

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James Britt

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