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Expand Up @@ -29,24 +29,22 @@ scRUBYt! :-)

Let's apply the "show don't tell" principle. Okay, here we go:

<tt>ebay_data = Scrubyt::Extractor.define do</tt>

fetch 'http://www.ebay.com/'
fill_textfield 'satitle', 'ipod'
submit
click_link 'Apple iPod'

record do
item_name 'APPLE NEW IPOD MINI 6GB MP3 PLAYER SILVER'
price '$71.99'
ebay_data = Scrubyt::Extractor.define do
fetch 'http://www.ebay.com/'
fill_textfield 'satitle', 'ipod'
submit
click_link 'Apple iPod'

record do
item_name 'APPLE NEW IPOD MINI 6GB MP3 PLAYER SILVER'
price '$71.99'
end
next_page 'Next >', :limit => 5
end
next_page 'Next >', :limit => 5

<tt>end</tt>

output:

<tt><root></tt>
<root>
<record>
<item_name>APPLE IPOD NANO 4GB - PINK - MP3 PLAYER</item_name>
<price>$149.95</price>
Expand All @@ -60,7 +58,7 @@ output:
<price>$171.06</price>
</record>
<!-- another 200+ results -->
<tt></root></tt>
</root>

This was a relatively beginner-level example (scRUBYt knows a lot more than this and there are much complicated
extractors than the above one) - yet it did a lot of things automagically. First of all,
Expand All @@ -74,13 +72,13 @@ result pages. Not so bad for about 10 lines of code, eh?
You can find everything you will need at these addresses (or if not, I doubt you will find it elsewhere...). See the
next section about installation, and after installing be sure to check out these URLs:

* <a href='http://www.rubyrailways.com'>rubyrailways.com</a> - for some theory; if you would like to take a sneak peek
* rubyrailways.com - for some theory; if you would like to take a sneak peek
at web scraping in general and/or you would like to understand what's going on under the hood, check out <a
href='http://www.rubyrailways.com/data-extraction-for-web-20-screen-scraping-in-rubyrails'>this article about
web-scraping</a>!
* <a href='http://scrubyt.org'>http://scrubyt.org</a> - your source of tutorials, howtos, news etc.
* <a href='http://scrubyt.rubyforge.org'>scrubyt.rubyforge.org</a> - for an up-to-date, online Rdoc
* <a href='http://projects.rubyforge.org/scrubyt'>projects.rubyforge.org/scrubyt</a> - for developer info, including
* http://scrubyt.org - your source of tutorials, howtos, news etc.
* scrubyt.rubyforge.org - for an up-to-date, online Rdoc
* projects.rubyforge.org/scrubyt - for developer info, including
open and closed bugs, files etc.
* projects.rubyforge.org/scrubyt/files... - fair amount (and still growing with every release) of examples, showcasing
the features of scRUBYt!
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