From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-06-08T17:02:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with getting info from several websites

Tom Bombadil wrote:
> George,
> 
> Thanks, however p (doc/'#vulnerability') still delivers me the whole 
> site...
> i only need the content of the div id = "vulnerability". How to proceed 
> with
> that?

Does this solve your problem?

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

doc = Hpricot(open("http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/715"))
p doc/"div[@id='vulnerability']"

If you don't want to scrape the table further, then the above solution 
should be enough - but if you want to go on and drill down the table, 
you could check out scRUBYt! (http://scrubyt.org), a Ruby web scraping 
tool which is designed to handle such issues.

Cheers,
Peter
__
http://www.rubyrailways.com :: Ruby and Web2.0 blog
http://scrubyt.org :: Ruby web scraping framework
http://rubykitchensink.ca/ :: The indexed archive of all things Ruby.