From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2008-03-01T12:34:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Scan HTML

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:22:12PM +0900, Tom Arra wrote:
> So I am new to Ruby scripting so I am not sure if this is possible or
> not. I want to make a script that will load a webpage and then search
> through the HTML of that page until it hits a certain tag. Once it hits
> that tag it need to grab all of the text between the tag and the
> appropriate end tag. Is something like this possible?
> 
> Example
> <html>
> <body>
> <h3>test</h3>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> I want the script to return "test"

You want the Hpricot gem.

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'

html = <<EOF
<html>
<body>
<h3>test</h3>
</body>
</html>
EOF

doc = Hpricot(html)

puts (doc/'h3').first.inner_text

--Greg