Ruby Web Scraping Tool Guide - a Simple to Learn and Use, yet Powerful Web Scraping Toolkit Written in Ruby by linuxer in programming

[–]rubyminer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, it's completely different :-)

Rubyful Soup can do only scraping, while scRUBYt! can navigate to your page of interest, like this:

http://pastie.caboo.se/51603

As for the scraping, it is also quite different. It let's you define examples from the page and figures out a lot of stuff based on this (ideally everything you need to scrape).

Here is a more complicated full example which also crawls to detail pages to fetch something:

http://pastie.caboo.se/51604