From: Philip Mak <pmak@...>
Date: 2002-06-25T16:38:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: download html file and parse it

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:32:50PM +0900, kwatch wrote:
> ..1) connect http server and get a html file

You can use Net::HTTP. Some documentation for it can be found here:

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_network.html

Search for "Net::HTTP" in that page (it's about halfway down).

> ..2) parse a http file to retrieve infromation from it

Here's a Ruby module that parses HTML. There may be others (look in
the Ruby Application Archive):

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=html-parser

> # I want to automate my routine work.

Assuming you're on a UNIX system, make a cron job that periodically
runs your ruby script.