Forum: Ruby can we read webpage grid data into an excel?

Hi,

I am using one third party web application, where in one pag all the
data is presented in grid format.

But i am not able to understand how should i read such grid html table
stored values?

Any help in this regard?

I recommend handing the table's HTML to Nokogiri and letting it do the 
parsing for you.

For example (using "driver" as Firefox with watir-webdriver):

require 'nokogiri'
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(driver.table(:id => 'example').html)

doc.css('tr').each do |row|
  row.css('td').each do |cell|
    puts cell.text
  end #Cell loop
end #Row loop

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Arup Rakshit <lists@ruby-forum.com> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using one third party web application, where in one pag all the
> data is presented in grid format.
>
> But i am not able to understand how should i read such grid html table
> stored values?
>
> Any help in this regard?

The easiest way is to use an HTML parser such as Nokogiri, and then
use xpath to get at the values.

Jesus.