From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T05:04:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to automate web browser tasks?

I worked on something very similar recently. We looked at Beautiful
Soup, Rubyful Soup, and Mechanize, and went with Mechanize in the end.
I think Beautiful Soup is actually better, but it's in Python. For me
that was a minus, and for the other programmer on the project, it was
a deal-breaker. Rubyful Soup is a direct port of Beautiful Soup which
is literally ten times slower. Mechanize has performance equivalent to
Beautiful Soup and is pretty easy to use as well. I think some of the
underlying code comes from why the lucky stiff. That's generally
considered a good thing.

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Giles Bowkett
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