What exactly are you trying to scrape? if it's just a few values here and there, it should be simple enough to get them directly if you know what element encapsulates the text you want. browser.element(how, what).text will give you the text inside an element.
Unless of course the site is trying to prevent scraping. I know some sites that publish propriatary data do this to prevent people from stealing the data via scraping and then republishing it on other sites. In that case the site often 'renders' the text data into graphics, so there is no actual text on the site to scrape via automation, but the legitimate end user still see's the data they came to the site for (or are paying for) On Jul 5, 6:53 am, Eddie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > I am looking for recommendations on which scraping framework to use in > conjunction with FireWatir. It seems that scRUBYt, which is very nice, > is kind of dead. scraPY is very active, but I havent found anyone > implementing FireWatir with scraPY. > > The target is heavily loaded with iframes and javascript, so FireWatir > is a must. I can use any framework that plays well with it. Any advice > or pointers are appreciated. > > Thanks > > Eddie -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. You received this message because you are subscribed to http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected]
