From: Lex Williams <etaern@...>
Date: 2008-09-06T03:30:48+09:00
Subject: Re: how to search a website

Adam Akhtar wrote:
> regarding mechanize, ive been tinkering with it and i want to knwo if 
> after you grab a webpage you can access the page`s html rather than 
> using the object returned from .get('...')

you can access mechanize's current page using :

   agent.page.body ( or whatever method you want to call on it )

and you wouldn't need to store the current page

> i wrote a huge script which took me hours and uses regular expressions 
> to scrape pages off ebay. It took me ages to write good regseps so i 
> dont want to thorw them away. I however ran into a problem regarding 
> logging into ebay so turned to mechanize. I basicaly want to login to 
> ebay using mechanize and then use my own regexps on a grabbed pages 
> html. Im not sure how to get that html though...

   interesting_stuff = agent.page.body.scan(/#{regex here}/i)

You only need the #{} if you have the regex stored in a variable

> i checked the ruby core section for mechanize but its thin and the 
> examples dont cover this situtation, they all presume you will use 
> hrpicot etc.
> 
> any one help me on this one?

mechanize has an examples and a guide section , which pretty much covers 
anything you would need to do .
If you have further questions , ask and I will do my best to answer them 
.
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