From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T14:45:11+09:00
Subject: Re: extract relative links from html page

cs5b@yahoo.com wrote:

> Does somebody have any suggestions on how to extract relative as well
> as absolute links from an html page. It seems like the URI.extract only
> matches on absolute urls.

Roll your own, a classic piece of programming advice:

#!/usr/bin/ruby -w 

data = File.read("/path/page.html")

data.scan(/src\s*=\s*\"(.*?)\"/im) { |item|
  puts "src = #{item}\n"
}

data.scan(/href\s*=\s*\"(.*?)\"/im) { |item|
  puts "href = #{item}\n"
} 

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com