Question

How can I search for a word in the HTML generated by the Restclient::Response module?

$getresponse = RestClient.get (url)
html=$getadsresponse.body
puts html

I can see the HTML that gets generated, but how do I search for words within that HTML?

Answer 1

Use an HTML parser to correctly interpret the HTML. Using Nokogiri with xpath, for example:

doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html)
found = doc.xpath('//p[@title = "some word"]/a[contains(text(), "some word")]')
found.each do |node|
  puts node.text
end