Suppose I have this HTML: html = <div>Four score and seven years ago</div> What's the best way to insert (say) an anchor tag after the word "score"? Note: I want to do this in terms of DOM manipulation (with Hpricot, e.g.) not in terms of text manipulation (e.g., no regexes) ...
Suppose I have the following HTML: html = Four score and seven <b>years ago</b> I want to parse this with Hpricot: doc = Hpricot(html) Find the <b> node: node = doc.at('b') and then get the character index of the <b> node within its parent: node.character_index => 22 How can I do this (i.e., what's the real version of the cha...
Now that http://github.com/why/hpricot/wikis/home no longer exists. ...
Hey--I'm writing a basic Rails app that uses the digg API. I'm trying to parse the xml data that digg's api provides with hpricot, but when testing the page, the browser hangs until I eventually catch the Timeout::Error exception. Here's the code for the controller: require 'rubygems' require 'hpricot' require 'open-uri' appkey = 'htt...
I'm trying to consume some legacy XML with elements like this in JRuby: <x-doc attr="value"> <nested> <with.dot>content</with.dot > </nested> </x-doc> I've been working with Hpricot, but Hpricot's HTML-oriented shortcuts are working against me: doc.search("//with.dot") seems to be looking for <with class="dot" /> (I ran into ...
I am attempting to parse a Wiktionary entry to retrieve all english definitions. I am able to retrive all definitions, the problem is that some definitions are in other languages. What I would like to do is somehow retrieve only the HTML block with English definitions. I have found that, in the case that there are other language entri...
There are lots of examples of how to strip HTML tags from a document using Ruby, Hpricot and Nokogiri have inner_text methods that remove all HTML for you easily and quickly. What I am trying to do is the opposite, remove all the text from an HTML document, leaving just the tags and their attributes. I considered looping through the do...
I know I can parse XML using Hpricot, but is it also possible to create files? All the tutorials I found only demonstrate parsing. ...
I'm trying to install the hpricot gem on my Windows machine using JRuby 1.4.0RC1. I'm trying to follow the advice to the related question (see -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/726412/installing-hpricot-for-jruby/1323619#1323619). Per the answer's advice I pulled the git head of hpricot and from it's dir ran: jruby -S rake package...
given: require 'rubygems' require 'nokogiri' value = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(<<-HTML_END) "<html> <body> <p id='para-1'>A</p> <div class='block' id='X1'> <h1>Foo</h1> <p id='para-2'>B</p> </div> <p id='para-3'>C</p> <h2>Bar</h2> <p id='para-4'>D</p> <p id='para-5'>E</p> <div class='block' id='X2'> <p id='para-6...
I'm having problems deciding between hpricot and scrubyt and I was wondering if someone who has worked with them could provide an advantages/disadvantages list for each. ...
I have a Twitter app that works fantastic locally - it searches for keywords then for each user it grabs their info using Hpricot to parse the xml e.g. Hpricot(open("http://twitter.com/users/show/"+myuser+".xml")) Works fine locally but when I go love it fails. Looking at my log I get this error: OpenURI::HTTPError (400 Bad Request): ...
My xml: http://www.google.ru/ig/api?weather=Chelyabinsk <forecast_information> <city data="Chelyabinsk, Province of Chelyabinsk"/> </forecast_information> How to get city data for example? Not inner_html, just attributes like city data, postal code etc. ...
I want to go through the children of an element and filter only the ones that are text or span, something like: element.children.select {|child| child.class == String || child.element_type == 'span' } but I can't find a way to test which type a certain element is. How do I test that? I'd like to know that regardless if there's a bet...
Hello, I have the following HTML doc : <ul> <li><span>Some text</span></li> <li><span>Some other text</span></li> <li><span>Some more text</span></li> </ul> How can I use Hpricot to loop on the list items and insert some new HTML at the beginning of each, so that I get the following : <ul> <li><span>1</span><span>Some text</...
I've been playing around with HPricot, but after a fair amount of searching, I've not been able to work this out. I'm trying to parse a HTML page and find all tags with a href to an mp3 file. So far I've got <ul> <% @page.search('//a[@href*=mp3]').each do |link| %> <li> <%= link.inner_text %> </li...
I want to match links like <a href="mailto:[email protected]">foo</a>, but this doesn't work only works in Nokogiri: doc/'a[href ^="mailto:"]' What's the right way of doing that? How do I do that with Hpricot? ...
Let's say this is the location element: <.location>blah...<./location> It can be empty like this: <.location/> Is there a way to detect the backslash in the empty element in order to not return it? ...
hi, I have read a large deal of tutorials to help out and under Hpricot, the problem that i am finding out it is not scraping all the Html so to speak. I'll elaborate: The website i am attempting to scrape html off is http://yellowpages.com.mt/Malta-Search/Radio-In-Malta-Gozo.aspx . I require to obtain the links that are listed as resu...
Hi, I am having a problem Scraping Code i require to extract information for a Web MashUp i'm creating. Basically, I am trying to Scrap Code from: http://yellowpages.com.mt/Meranti-Ltd-In-Malta-Gozo;/Hair-Accessories;Hijjhkikke=Hiojhhfokje.aspx This is just one of the pages i will need to scrape and hence i cannot feed the program d...