Rubyful Soup v0.8

[Leonard Richardson]

I've created a Ruby port of Beautiful Soup, my Python module for HTML
screen-scraping. The goal is to make it trivial to get the data you
need out of complex and/or poorly-formed *ML.

A beta release is available at:
http://www.crummy.com/software/RubyfulSoup/

Please let me know what you think of this library.

Leonard

 

[Josh Charles]

How good is this for scraping google search results (web)? I have an
application I'm working on that needs this functionality. I've
currently tried writing a C# library to do this, but it worked
terribly. The google web service API is not going to work because I
need to not be limited by the number of searches I can do in a day
(there could be thousands of users doing searches).

 

[James Edward Gray II]

How good is this for scraping google search results (web)?

I would expect Google to have fairly good pages, but that's a random
guess, not me speaking from experience.

However, be careful to examine the legal issues here. I seriously
doubt this is allowed.

James Edward Gray II

 

[TLOlczyk]

I've created a Ruby port of Beautiful Soup, my Python module for HTML
screen-scraping. The goal is to make it trivial to get the data you
need out of complex and/or poorly-formed *ML.

A beta release is available at:
http://www.crummy.com/software/RubyfulSoup/

Please let me know what you think of this library.

Leonard

Hmm. Being new to these packages, I wouldn't understand
exactly what the differences are, but wouldn't you be better
off building it on top of htmltools?

Or at lest using their SGML parser ( which I understand is a port
or the Python SGML parser ).



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