From: Marcin Raczkowski <swistak@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T18:35:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Need advice for a script to scrap my Verizon account

On Friday 04 May 2007 21:49, Steve wrote:
> I am new to Ruby.  I would like to write a script that will login to
> my Verizon account and grab my minute details and calculate my
> remaining unused minutes for the month.  This would involve opening an
> HTTPS connection, then scraping and calculating the results.  I have
> found one Perl and one Java/Firefox solution that does the same, but I
> thought it would be a good project to learn more about Ruby.  I would
> rather not use external shells (to wget, for example) and rely on the
> internal Ruby libraries instead.  I'm looking for advice on what
> libraries to use to get me started down the right path.  Thank you.

try http://www.scrubyt.org - great ruby toolkit for webscraping
and Net:Mechanize

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Marcin Raczkowski
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