From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-04-20T17:49:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Get Source Code of a http://... site?

2009/4/20 Joshua Muheim <forum@josh.ch>:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> 2009/4/20 Joshua Muheim <forum@josh.ch>:
>>> I want to download the source code of a website using Ruby? How can I
>>> achieve this? ...when searching with Google, I only get download links
>>> for the Ruby source etc. ;-)
>>
>> The source code of a web site is usually not available apart from the
>> JavaScript you see in pages - for good reasons (security,
>> copyright...).
>
> Oh, I wasn't clear enough, I just need the XHTML code, no
> behind-the-scenes Ruby or PHP or stuff. ;-)

There are mechanize, hpricot and a few other alternatives that can
help you there.

Cheers

robert


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