On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:05 PM, JavierQQ <[email protected]> wrote:
> HI, > > Hi > I want to grab some information about university names, and I found > this term called "web scraping" > I search about it in google, and there are tools in ruby. > One of them is nokogiri but I'm a bit confused because it seems that > it only gets information that its already in an html or xml > > I found a webpage that have a list of university names as a > > <select> </select> (html label) > > and I want to grab that information > > The question is... can I do that with nokogiri or another tool? > The list is like a country list, but with the names of the > universities of my country. > > It seems that it get that information from an DB using ajax, and what > I'm trying to do may not be legal or possible > > I'll really appreciate if someone can help me to understand what this > tool is used for, and if what I'm trying to do is possible > > Thanks > > Javier Q > > Take a look on some screencasts: http://railscasts.com/episodes?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=mechanize http://railscasts.com/episodes/190-screen-scraping-with-nokogiri http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/getting-started-with-nokogiri/ With nokogiri, you could use CSS3 selectors to grab the information you want Best Regards, Everaldo > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
