From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2006-12-18T00:45:10+09:00
Subject: Grabbing data off a webpage

OK, so I haven't done this in years.

What's the "modern" way of grabbing the data off
a webpage, e.g.,

  http://yorkcountyschools.org/mves/arlist/3-3.4.htm

My initial attempt has been focused on Hpricot,

  require 'rubygems'
  require 'open-uri'
  require 'hpricot'
  doc = Hpricot(open('http://yorkcountyschools.org/mves/arlist/3-3.4.htm'))

and I can find doc/"th" and doc/"tr", but what's
the best way to cram them into an array of structs
or something?

Thanks,
--
Bil Kleb
http://funit.rubyforge.org