From: Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Date: 2008-09-11T02:32:55+09:00
Subject: Re: find a button using mechanize

Martin DeMello wrote:

> It's probably not the wav file, then. Does opening it up in notepad
> reveal anything?
> 
> martin

The one downloaded directly is a binary file and the one using script is 
a HTML page.

Since I use the following script( by Lex) to download the file I wonder 
how to fix it.

Thanks,

Li


##################
require "rubygems"
require "mechanize"

mech = WWW::Mechanize.new
mech.user_agent_alias = "Windows IE 6"
mech.get("http://www.ask.com/web?qsrc=2352&o=0&l=dir&dm=&q=dictionary")

form = nil

form = mech.page.forms.select {|form| form.has_field?("aj_text1")}.first

if(form == nil)
  abort "could not find form"
end

form.aj_text1 = "abacus"
new_page = mech.submit(form)

wav_link = mech.page.links.select {|link| link.href =~/\.wav$/i}.first
puts "downloading #{wav_link.href}"
mech.get(wav_link).save_as(File.basename(wav_link.href))
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