From: Vivek Netha <vivnet@...>
Date: 2009-01-02T06:42:38+09:00
Subject: Help with HTML parsing

Hello,

I'm new to Watir\Ruby and need to resolve something that involves HTML
parsing - you could also call it screen scraping. I haven't used either
library before, but I wanted to know if it is better to use Hpricot or
open_uri. The problem is similar to below:

let's say I'm searching Google for some string, "Dungeons & Dragons" for
instance. I want to parse through the first results page and get the
title text and url for the top 5 results. How would I do this using
Hpricot or open_uri or both?

Please help!


Viv.
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