Question

I’d like to get the actual url strings from the hyperlinks. I’d like my result to be stripped of html.

So, if one of my input strings is

<a href="http://target.com/resource.tar.gz">resource</a>

I’d like to get:

http://target.com/resource.tar.gz

How can I do this?

Answer 1

In Hpricot you access attributes of an element using square brackets (like you would when accessing elements in a Hash). So, to use your example:

doc = Hpricot('<a href="http://target.com/resource.tar.gz">resource</a>')

puts doc.at('a')['href']  # => http://target.com/resource.tar.gz