Reposting a comment by the author from the article: > Upton depends on Nokogiri, which is basically the BeautifulSoup port for Ruby. > If you just used vanill

Reposting a comment by the author from the article: > Upton depends on Nokogiri, which is basically the BeautifulSoup port for Ruby. > If you just used vanilla Nokogiri, you'd be responsible for writing code to fetch, save (maybe), debug and sew together all the pieces of your web scraper. Upton does a lot of that work for you, so you can skip the boilerplate.