Not quite sure what I should do at this point..I am utilizing a regular expression to capture JSON within the HTML on a website. I've initialized a for loop to go through everyline in the array to find {"page_cur":
I've attempted to push it to an array with the following code.
line.push(json_text)
The result was the entire sites source code. What am I doing wrong?
require 'mechanize'
require 'json'
mechanize = Mechanize.new
url = mechanize.get('http://www.hypem.com/')
page = Array.new
page = url.body.split(/\n/)
json_text = Array.new
#look through every line of code
for line in page
#find {"page_cur":
next unless line =~ /^\s*\{"page_cur":/
#delete </script> tag on the last line
line.sub! /<.script>/, ''
#push into array?
end
If you are trying to push into the json_text array it should be json_text.push(line)
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I want to print the contents of an XPath node. Here is what I have:
require "mechanize"
agent = Mechanize.new
agent.get("http://store.steampowered.com/promotion/snowglobefaq")
puts agent.xpath("//*[#id='item_52b3985a70d58']/div[4]")
This returns: <main>: undefined method xpath for #<Mechanize:0x2fa18c0> (NoMethodError).
I just started using Mechanize and have no idea what I'm doing, however, I've used Watir and thought this would work but it didn't.
You an use Nokogiri to parse the page after retrieving it. Here is the example code:
m = Mechanize.new
result = m.get("http://google.com")
html = Nokogiri::HTML(result.body)
divs = html.xpath('//div').map { |div| div.content } # here you can do whatever is needed with the divs
# I've mapped their content into an array
There are two things wrong:
The ID doesn't exist on that page. Try this to see the list of tag IDs available:
require "open-uri"
require 'nokogiri'
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("http://store.steampowered.com/promotion/snowglobefaq"))
puts doc.search('[id*="item"]').map{ |n| n['id'] }.sort
The correct chain of methods is agent.page.xpath.
Because there is no sample HTML showing exactly which tag you want, we can't help you much.
I wrote a simple script:
require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
url = "http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=MYGN"
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
name = doc.at_css("#yfi_rt_quote_summary h2").text
market_cap = doc.at_css("#yfs_j10_mygn").text
ebit = doc.at("//*[#id='yfncsumtab']/tbody/tr[2]/td/table[2]/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[11]/td[2]/strong").text
puts "#{name} - #{market_cap} - #{ebit}"
The script grabs three values from Yahoo finance. The problem is that the ebit XPath returns nil. The way I got the XPath was using the Chrome developer tools and copy and pasting.
This is the page I'm trying to get the value from http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=MYGN and the actual value is 483,992 in the total current assets row.
Any help would be appreciated, especially if there is a way to get this value with CSS selectors.
Nokogiri supports:
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=MYGN"))
ebit = doc.at('strong:contains("Total Current Assets")').parent.next_sibling.text.gsub(/[^,\d]+/, '')
puts ebit
# >> 483,992
I'm using the <strong> tag as an place-marker with the :contains pseudo-class, then backing up to the containing <td>, moving to the next <td> and grabbing its text, then finally stripping the white-space using gsub(/[^,\d]+/, '') which removes everything that isn't a number or a comma.
Nokogiri supports a number of jQuery's JavaScript extensions, which is why :contains works.
This seems to work for me
doc.css("table.yfnc_tabledata1 tr[11] td[2]").text.tr(",","").to_i
#=> 483992
Or as a string
doc.css("table.yfnc_tabledata1 tr[11] td[2]").text.strip.gsub(/\u00A0/,"")
#=> "483,992"
Is it possible to do multi domain searches using Nokogiri. I am aware you can do multiple Xpath/CSS searches for a single domain/page but multi domain?
For example I want to scrape http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/S56CA/#specifications and http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_TAICHI_21/#specifications
My Code
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
require 'spreadsheet'
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_TAICHI_21/#specifications"))
#Grab our product specifications
data = doc.css('div#specifications div#spec-area ul.product-spec li')
#Modify our data
lines = data.map(&:text)
#Create the Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet.client_encoding = 'UTF-8'
book = Spreadsheet::Workbook.new
sheet1 = book.create_worksheet
sheet1.name = 'My First Worksheet'
#Output our data to the Spreadsheet
lines.each.with_index do |line, i|
sheet1[i, 0] = line
end
book.write 'C:/Users/Barry/Desktop/output.xls'
Nokogiri has no concept of URLs, it only knows about a String or IO stream of XML or HTML. You're confusing OpenURI's purpose with Nokogiri's.
If you want to read from multiple sites, simply loop over the URLs, and pass the current URL to OpenURI to open the page:
%w[
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/S56CA/#specifications
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_TAICHI_21/#specifications
].each do |url|
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
# do somethng with the document...
end
OpenURI will read the page, and pass its contents to Nokogiri for parsing. Nokogiri will still only see one page at a time, because that's all it is passed by OpenURI.
I'm running the following code:
require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
url = "http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=bike&catAbb=sss&srchType=A&minAsk=&maxAsk="
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
doc.css(".row").each do |row|
row.css("a").text
end
The only thing I get returned is 0. However, when I just run doc.css(".row"), I get the entire list of rows from the CL. Why is it returning zero when I use the each method and how do I fix it?
.each doesn't return anything, it's a simple iterator. Perhaps you are looking for .map?
This will return an array of the anchor element text:
doc.css(".row").map {|row| row.css("a").text }
You don't need to issue two different css queries; you can combine them:
doc.css(".row > a").map(&:text)
EDIT: My original question was way off, my apologies. Mark Reed has helped me find out the real problem, so here it is.
Note that this code works:
require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
source_url = "www.flickr.com"
puts "Visiting #{source_url}"
page = Nokogiri::HTML(open("http://website/script.php?value=#{source_url}"))
textarea = page.css('textarea')
filename = source_url.to_s + ".txt"
create_file = File.open("#{filename}", 'w')
create_file.puts textarea
create_file.close
Which is really awesome, but I need it to do this to ~110 URLs, not just Flickr. Here's my loop that isn't working:
require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
File.open('sources.txt').each_line do |source_url|
puts "Visiting #{source_url}"
page = Nokogiri::HTML(open("http://website/script.php?value=#{source_url}"))
textarea = page.css('textarea')
filename = source_url.to_s + ".txt"
create_file = File.open("#{filename}", 'w')
create_file.puts "#{textarea}"
create_file.close
end
What am I doing wrong with my loop?
Ok, now you're looping over the lines of the input file. When you do that, you get strings that end in a newilne. So you're trying to create a file with a newline in the middle of its name, which is not legal in Windows.
Just chomp the string:
File.open('sources.txt').each_line do |source_url|
source_url.chomp!
# ... rest of code goes here ...
You can also use File#foreach instead of File#open.each_line:
File.foreach('sources.txt') do |source_url|
source_url.chomp!
# ... rest of code goes here
You're putting your parentheses in the wrong place:
create_file = File.open(variable, 'w')