downloading web page as HTML accessed through WATIR

[michael]

is there anyway to download the page accessed through WATIR as html
page??

for instance,


require 'watir'

ie = Watir::IE.start("http://www.yahoo.com")


above codes will open www.yahoo.com.. what should we do to download
this page as yahoo.htm??

any suggestion or hints will be deeply appreciated..


michael

 

[lrlebron]

ie.html is what you are looking for

aFile = File.new("yahoo.htm" , "w")
aFile << ie.html
aFile.close

and if you want to view the file then

ie.goto("yahoo.htm")

 

[David Vallner]

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is there anyway to download the page accessed through WATIR as html
page??
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require 'watir'
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above codes will open www.yahoo.com.. what should we do to download
this page as yahoo.htm??
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any suggestion or hints will be deeply appreciated..
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If this is all you need, you might as well use Net:HTTP, or open-uri -
this should have smaller overhead since you're not instantiating an IE
control.

require 'open-uri'

open('http://www.yahoo.com/') { |html|
open('yahoo.html', 'w') { |out|
out.print(html.read)
}
}

David Vallner


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[Chris McMahon]

ie.html is what you are looking for

aFile = File.new("yahoo.htm" , "w")
aFile << ie.html
aFile.close

and if you want to view the file then

ie.goto("yahoo.htm")

Be very very careful here, make sure you understand what you are doing.
Watir does *not* see the HTML on the page-- Watir only sees the DOM in
Internet Explorer. If the HTML is missing a "/p>", for instance, Watir
can't see it. The #html method will *always* yield valid HTML, because
it it interpreting the DOM, regardless of how awful the original HTML
may or may not be.