# scRUBYt! 0.3.1 released **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [29 May 2007 19:34 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/scrubyt-0-3-1-released/37939 "2007-05-29T19:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peter\_Szinek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@Peter\_Szinek](https://rubytalk.org/u/Peter_Szinek)\ **Post date:** [29 May 2007 19:34 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/scrubyt-0-3-1-released/37939/1 "2007-05-29T19:34:19Z")
Hello all, scRUBYt! version 0.3.1 has been released with a plenty of new features and bugfixes based on your feedback. Enjoy! > **···** > > # ============ What’s this? > > scRUBYt! is a very easy to learn and use, yet powerful Web scraping > framework based on Hpricot and mechanize. It’s purpose is to free you > from the drudgery of web page crawling, looking up HTML tags, > attributes, XPaths, form names and other typical low-level web scraping > woes by figuring these out from your examples copy’n’pasted from the Web > page. > > # =========== What’s new? > > [NEW] complete rewrite of the output system, creating > a solid foundation for more robust output functions > (credit: Neelance) > [NEW] logging - no annoying puts messages anymore! > (credit: Tim Fletcher) > [NEW] can index an example - e.g. > link ‘more[5]’ > semantics: give me the 6th element with the text ‘link’ > [NEW] can use XPath checking an attribute value, like > “//div[@id=‘content’]” > [NEW] default values for missing elements (first version was done in > 0.2.8 but it did not work for all cases) > [NEW] possibility to click button with it’s text (instead of it’s index) > (credit: Nick Merwin) > [NEW] clicking radio buttons > [NEW] can click on image buttons (by specifying the name of the button) > [NEW] possibility to extract an URL with one step, like so: > link ‘The Difference/@href’ > i.e. give me the href attribute of the element matched by the > example ‘The Difference’ > [NEW] new way to match an element of the page: > div ‘div[The Difference]’ > means ‘return the div which contains the string “The Difference”’. > This is useful if the XPath of the element is non-constant across > the same site (e.g.sometimes a banner or add is added, sometimes > not etc.) > [NEW] Clicking image maps; At the moment this is achieved by specifying > an index, like > click\_image\_map 3 > which means click the 4th link in the image map > [FIX] Replacing \240 ( ) with space in the preprocessing phase > automatically > [FIX] Fixed: correctly downloading image if the src > attribute had a leading space, as in > ![](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/files/downloads/images/image.jpg) > [FIX] Other misc fixes - a ton of them! > > # ======== Comments > > The win32 version is just being built as I am writing this, so it will > be available soon. > > Please keep the feedback coming - bug reports, questions, suggestions > are warmly welcome at the scRUBYt! forum - [http://agora.scrubyt.org](http://agora.scrubyt.org). > > Cheers, > The scRUBYt! team - [http://scrubyt.org](http://scrubyt.org) > > –~--~---------~–~----~------------~-------~–~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Ruby on Rails: Talk” group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org > For more options, visit this group at [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en) > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~–~— ---
**Author:** ![al\_batuul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@al\_batuul](https://rubytalk.org/u/al_batuul)\ **Post date:** [29 May 2007 19:46 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/scrubyt-0-3-1-released/37939/2 "2007-05-29T19:46:16Z")
Waiting eagerly for the window version al\_batuul Peter Szinek \<[peter@rubyrailways.com](mailto:peter@rubyrailways.com)\> wrote: Hello all, scRUBYt! version 0.3.1 has been released with a plenty of new features and bugfixes based on your feedback. Enjoy! > **···** > > # ============ What's this? > > scRUBYt! is a very easy to learn and use, yet powerful Web scraping > framework based on Hpricot and mechanize. It's purpose is to free you > from the drudgery of web page crawling, looking up HTML tags, > attributes, XPaths, form names and other typical low-level web scraping > woes by figuring these out from your examples copy'n'pasted from the Web > page. > > # =========== What's new? > > [NEW] complete rewrite of the output system, creating > a solid foundation for more robust output functions > (credit: Neelance) > [NEW] logging - no annoying puts messages anymore! > (credit: Tim Fletcher) > [NEW] can index an example - e.g. > link 'more[5]' > semantics: give me the 6th element with the text 'link' > [NEW] can use XPath checking an attribute value, like > "//div[@id='content']" > [NEW] default values for missing elements (first version was done in > 0.2.8 but it did not work for all cases) > [NEW] possibility to click button with it's text (instead of it's index) > (credit: Nick Merwin) > [NEW] clicking radio buttons > [NEW] can click on image buttons (by specifying the name of the button) > [NEW] possibility to extract an URL with one step, like so: > link 'The Difference/@href' > i.e. give me the href attribute of the element matched by the > example 'The Difference' > [NEW] new way to match an element of the page: > div 'div[The Difference]' > means 'return the div which contains the string "The Difference"'. > This is useful if the XPath of the element is non-constant across > the same site (e.g.sometimes a banner or add is added, sometimes > not etc.) > [NEW] Clicking image maps; At the moment this is achieved by specifying > an index, like > click\_image\_map 3 > which means click the 4th link in the image map > [FIX] Replacing \240 ( ) with space in the preprocessing phase > automatically > [FIX] Fixed: correctly downloading image if the src > attribute had a leading space, as in > > [FIX] Other misc fixes - a ton of them! > > # ======== Comments > > The win32 version is just being built as I am writing this, so it will > be available soon. > > Please keep the feedback coming - bug reports, questions, suggestions > are warmly welcome at the scRUBYt! forum - [http://agora.scrubyt.org](http://agora.scrubyt.org). > > Cheers, > The scRUBYt! team - [http://scrubyt.org](http://scrubyt.org) > > --------------------------------- > Luggage? GPS? Comic books? > Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search.