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I agree that mechanize is an excellent scraping solution, but for something really basic like this where we're not clicking links or submitting forms it seemed
by hecticjeff 12y ago
I agree that mechanize is an excellent scraping solution, but for something really basic like this where we're not clicking links or submitting forms it seemed like a bit of an overkill :)
- Doctor_Fegg 12y agoEach to their own, but I find the Mechanize syntax much easier even for simple scraping work. You can use CSS selectors as per the example, or XPath should you want to get more complex.