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**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [22 March 2006 10:13 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-html-tools-ruby-htmltools-examples/25993 "2006-03-22T10:13:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:**  [@joes](https://rubytalk.org/u/joes)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2006 10:13 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-html-tools-ruby-htmltools-examples/25993/1 "2006-03-22T10:13:52Z")
Hi,
I have searched a lot of sites and newsgroups on the best approach to
build a simple screen scraper/HTML parser with Ruby. I've gone down
the road of using ruby-htmltools ([http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/](http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/)).
However there is a big scarcity of any documentation on this and I was
looking for any examples which anyone may have that I could learn from.
Thanks.
Joe
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**Author:**  [@Pistos\_Christou1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Pistos_Christou1)\
**Post date:** [23 March 2006 14:35 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-html-tools-ruby-htmltools-examples/25993/2 "2006-03-23T14:35:36Z")
joes wrote:
> Hi,
> I have searched a lot of sites and newsgroups on the best approach to
> build a simple screen scraper/HTML parser with Ruby. I've gone down
> the road of using ruby-htmltools ([http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/\](http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/%5C)).
> However there is a big scarcity of any documentation on this and I was
> looking for any examples which anyone may have that I could learn from.
> Thanks.
> Joe
You may also consider Rubyful Soup:
> **[Rubyful Soup: "The brush has got entangled in it!"](https://www.crummy.com/software/RubyfulSoup/)**
>
> Rubyful Soup: an HTML parser for Ruby, optimized for screen-scraping.
> **···**
>
> --
> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/\](http://www.ruby-forum.com/%5C).
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**Author:**  [@James\_Britt4](https://rubytalk.org/u/James_Britt4)\
**Post date:** [24 March 2006 16:54 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-html-tools-ruby-htmltools-examples/25993/3 "2006-03-24T16:54:06Z")
joes wrote:
> Hi,
> I have searched a lot of sites and newsgroups on the best approach to
> build a simple screen scraper/HTML parser with Ruby. I've gone down
> the road of using ruby-htmltools ([http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/\](http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/%5C)).
> However there is a big scarcity of any documentation on this and I was
> looking for any examples which anyone may have that I could learn from.
I use Mechanize to grab content from several Cafe Press sites and reassemble them into rubystuff.com
> **[How I Did It: Building RubyStuff.com](https://neurogami.com/cafe-fetcher/)**
>
> A microformat that eases the transition from page to print with CSS and HTML
> **···**
>
> --
> James Britt
>
> [http://web2.0validator.com](http://web2.0validator.com) - We're the Dot in Web 2.0
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