From: Charles Pareto <chuckdawit@...>
Date: 2007-08-30T07:15:23+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie to Ruby

Jaime Iniesta wrote:
> 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.�

So I was trying out what everyone said and I got it to work. Here is 
what I did.

page_content.scan(/<a href=\"([^"]*?)\" class=l[^"]*?/).flatten
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