require 'rubygems' : hpricot HTML Parsing « Network « Ruby






  1. Ruby
  2. Network
  3. hpricot HTML Parsing

require 'rubygems'

require 'hpricot'

html = <<END_OF_HTML
<html>
<head>
  <title>This is the page title</title>
</head>

<body>
  <h1>Big heading!</h1>
  <p>A paragraph of text.</p>
  <ul><li>Item 1 in a list</li><li>Item 2</li><li class="highlighted">Item
3</li></ul>
</body>
</html>
END_OF_HTML

doc = Hpricot(html)
puts doc.search("h1").first.inner_html








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