From: Jaime Iniesta <jaimeiniesta@...>
Date: 2007-08-28T03:22:12+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie to Ruby

2007/8/27, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com>:
> That's not to prevent web scraping, it's just that web sites are
> pretty transitory. They change all the time and very easily. This
> makes web sophisticated web scraping a moving target.

Yes, web scraping using just open-uri and regular expressions is
pretty low-level.

Try Hpricot or scRUBYt for a higher level, more flexible, scraping.�

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