Question

I have the below code which is a part of an html:

<td><a href="http://youtube.com">YouTube</a></td>
<td><a data-category="news" href=http://kathack.com/party/aems/dic/list">Reddit</a></td>
<td><a href="http://kathack.com/party/aems">Kathack</a></td>
<td><a data-category="news" href="http://www.nytimes.com">New York Times</a></td>

now how would I search the /aems/dic/list and get the full url stored?

Answer 1

So, with nokogiri, something like this:

fragment = Nokogiri::HTML::DocumentFragment.parse text
fragment.css("a").each do |link|
  href = link['href']
  return href if href =~ /\/aems\/dic\/list/
end