Web Scraping

Hi all...

I want to implement the scraping for my rails application.

Any idea???

Thanks...
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On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 07:34:30AM +0100, Smit Shah wrote:

I want to implement the scraping for my rails application.

Rails has nothing to do with scraping, except insofar as it's serving up
web pages. You should look at the WWW::Mechanize library instead.

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Have a look at ScrAPI. It uses css selectors for scraping and is quite
simple to use.

Ryan Bates has done a screencast as well
http://railscasts.com/episodes/173-screen-scraping-with-scrapi

On Nov 5, 6:34*am, Smit Shah <rails-mailing-l... (AT) andreas-s (DOT) net> wrote:

Hi all...

I want to implement the scraping for my rails application.

Any idea???

Thanks...
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nas wrote:

Have a look at ScrAPI. It uses css selectors for scraping and is quite
simple to use.

Ryan Bates has done a screencast as well
http://railscasts.com/episodes/173-screen-scraping-with-scrapi

Thanks for your reply..

I have seen that episode. But what if site have made change in css?
If it will change than I am no longer able to get the data...

Any dynamic solution?
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