From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2007-06-14T11:32:41+09:00
Subject: Re: more mechanize

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:59:53AM +0900, Colin Summers wrote:
> Okay, I managed to get mechanize to login for me. Now I am pulling
> down a vBulletin page which has a thread on it:
> 
> # pull down a thread
> puts "Thread:\n"
> page = 
> agent.get('http://dapo.org/forums/archive/index.php?t-2293.html?pda=1')
> pp page
> 
> but all I get is:
> Thread:
> #<WWW::Mechanize::Page
> {url
>  #<URI::HTTP:0x333ef2
> URL:http://dapo.org/forums/archive/index.php?t-2293.html>}
> {meta}
> {title
>  "Alternator failure For Real This Time [Archive]  - Diamond Aircraft
> Pilots/Owners Organization"}
> {iframes}
> {frames}
> {links
>  #<WWW::Mechanize::Link
>   "Diamond Aircraft Pilots/Owners Organization"
>   "index.php">
>  #<WWW::Mechanize::Link "General" "index.php?f-1.html">
>  #<WWW::Mechanize::Link "Discussions" "index.php?f-4.html">
>  #<WWW::Mechanize::Link "PDA" "index.php?pda=1">
>  #<WWW::Mechanize::Link
>   "Alternator failure For Real This Time"
>   "http://www.dapo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2293">}
> {forms}>
> 
> 
> 
> It's cool that I have a data structure for the links, but, um, where's
> the text of the page? That's the stuff I *want*.

Try this:

  puts page.body

Hope that helps!  Also, make sure to add yourself to the mechanize
mailing list.  You will probably get more prompt responses.  :-)

  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mechanize-users

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/