hi all, any one know how to grep page source by rails? i.e. i wanna grep html source from http://www.ruby-forum.com/ by ruby code. regards -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Joe Black wrote:> hi all, any one know how to grep page source by rails? > i.e. > i wanna grep html source from http://www.ruby-forum.com/ by ruby code.one way would be to grab the page serverside: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html as for the grepping, there are a variety of regular expression options, as well as dealing with the DOM tree of the fetched page at a higher level. i guess you could also do similar things clientside, with greasemonkey or similar utils if you are serious about doing a lot of webpage ''remixing'' you could hceck out mousehole, which is some kind of ruby web proxy -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
thanks carmen carmen wrote:> Joe Black wrote: >> hi all, any one know how to grep page source by rails? >> i.e. >> i wanna grep html source from http://www.ruby-forum.com/ by ruby code. > > one way would be to grab the page serverside: > > http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html > > as for the grepping, there are a variety of regular expression options, > as well as dealing with the DOM tree of the fetched page at a higher > level. i guess you could also do similar things clientside, with > greasemonkey or similar utils > > if you are serious about doing a lot of webpage ''remixing'' you could > hceck out mousehole, which is some kind of ruby web proxy-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.