From: "toulax@..." <toulax@...>
Date: 2007-02-21T19:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: scRUBYt! 0.2.3 - Hpricot and Mechanize on steroids

Peter,

I really, really like scRUBYt! so far, especially after so much
scraping using PHP, however the lack of documentation kills me. Are
there going to be more tutorials and examples soon? When I was first
testing it I could not believe it was possible to scrape google with
only a few lines, but what about more complicated pages? For example,
it isn't possible to scrape Ask.com the same way you do Google because
of it's markup, what are you supposed to do on those cases?

I know how scraping works but I'm not very experienced with XPath so
it would be really good to have more examples (in their final form,
not the learner only because they stop working after a while for most
of the time), plus a more detailed explanation of everything that can
be done.

Either way, this seems to be shaping up very well and I wish you good
luck with it!

Cheers

On Feb 21, 7:46 am, Peter Szinek <p...@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am pleased to announce that the new release of scRUBYt!, 0.2.3 is
> available for download.
>
> scRUBYt! is a very easy to learn and use, yet powerful Web scraping
> framework based on Hpricot and mechanize. It's purpose is to free you
> from the drudgery of web page crawling, looking up HTML tags,
> attributes, XPaths, form names and other typical low-level web scraping
> woes by figuring these out from your examples copy'n'pasted from the Web
> page.
>
> The current release has a lot of new features, tons of bugfixes and
> some shiny new examples - scraping reddit, del.icio.us, rubyforge login,
> wordpress automatic commenting for example.
>
> Thanks everybody for the great feedback!
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
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