I’m looking for a forgiving HTML parser for scraping HTML and extracting data in Ruby. I’ve had success using BeautifulSoup for this – what is the ruby equivalent?
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I’m looking for a forgiving HTML parser for scraping HTML and extracting data in Ruby. I’ve had success using BeautifulSoup for this – what is the ruby equivalent?
Nokogiri
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Nokogiri vs Hpricot before making a choice.
Nokogiri seems to outdo hpricot performance-wise (haven’t benchmarked myself) and has a nice syntax IMO.