Hello all, After more than a year, I''d like to announce a new release of scRUBYt! - so "scRUBYt!".is_vaporware? == false now! =========scRUBwhat? ========= scRUBYt! is a (hopefully) easy to use, yet powerful Web scraping framework based on Hpricot, mechanize and/or FireWatir. It''s purpose is to free you from the drudgery of web page crawling, looking up HTML tags, attributes, XPaths, form names and other typical low-level web scraping stuff by figuring these out from your examples copy''n''pasted from the Web page or Firebug. ==============In this release ============== Finally it is possible to use FireWatir as the agent for navigation, enabling AJAX/more robust scraping via Firefox. Another big news is that the RubyInline, ParseTree and Ruby2Ruby dependency was dropped since we couldn''t solve this problem for win32 for one year. Of course a lot of bugs were fixed as well! ========CHANGELOG ======== - [NEW] possibility to use FireWatir as the agent for scraping (credit: Glenn Gillen) - [FIX] navigation doesn''t crash if a 404/500 is returned (credit: Glen Gillen) - [NEW] navigation action: click_by_xpath to click arbitrary elements - [MOD] dropped dependencies: RubyInline, ParseTree, Ruby2Ruby (hooray for win32 users) - [NEW] scraping through frames (e.g. google analytics) - [MOD] exporting temporarily doesn''t work - for now, generated XPaths are printed to the screen - [MOD] possibility to wait after clicking link/filling textfield (to be able to scrape inserted AJAX stuff) - [NEW] possibility to fetch from a string, by specifying nil as the url and the html string with the :html option - [FIX] firewatir slowness (credit: jak4) - [FIX] lot of bugfixes and stability fixes ==========What''s next ========== The biggest news is that scRUBYt! is going to be rewritten from scratch - the work has already been started by Glenn Gillen. scRUBYt! has grown too big for our taste, so we decided to start anew, aiming for 100% rSpec coverage, refactored code, speed/performance optimization and leaving cruft behind. So scRUBYt! 0.4.1, the last one based on the original scRUBYt! will be supported until the new, rewritten one (0.5.0) comes out and takes it''s place. We are working on a public scraper repository (http://github.com/scrubber/scrubyt_examples/tree/master) where you can post your scRUBYt! snippets and check out what are the others doing. And there are other interesting stuff in the pipeline as well - stay tuned! Cheers, Glenn && Peter ___ http://scrubyt.org http://www.rubypond.com (Glenn) http://www.rubyrailways.com (Peter) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---