Question

This is part of a ruby script. I want to save the results to a text file. I only want the results specified in these two DIVS.

url = browser.html
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))

price = doc.css("#sectionPrice").text
ship = doc.css("#shippingCharges td").text

How do I save the scraped results? Mind you that the script loading the page is working correclty. In SHELL I can see the values of my scrape using XPATH as follows.

page_html = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(browser.html)
shipping = puts page_html.xpath(".//*[@id='shippingCharges']").inner_text
price = puts page_html.xpath(".//*[@id='sectionPrice']").inner_text

How do I save this data to a CSV or XML?

//Side Question: Is this data returned in SHELL saved anywhere? How do I access it outside of SHELL

url = browser.html
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))

price = doc.css("#sectionPrice").text
ship = doc.css("#shippingCharges td").text

CSV.open("/users/fabio/desktop/ruby/gp.csv", "wb") do |csv|
  csv << [price, ship]
end

Not creating the CSVfile. Nothing appearing in the DIR What gives?

Answer 1

It is pretty simple to write this to a csv file.

Just add the following in:

require 'csv'

CSV.open("file.csv", "wb") do |csv|
  csv << [price, ship]
end

If shipping and price are arrays then you will want to iterate through them but this is how you create a csv.

Hope this gets you on your way.

Cheers!