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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 14, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/advice-for-html-project/191532 "2010-07-14T01:38:28Z")\
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**Author:**  [@jnb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jnb)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/advice-for-html-project/191532/1 "2010-07-14T01:38:28Z")
I helping my boss with some scripting for a web analysis research
project. He handles vocabulary and analysis, while I am using ruby parse
WARC files and the actual HTML.
Anyway, I’m still fairly new to Ruby. I did the WARC parsing, but I was
wondering what I should use for the HTML parser. (Didn’t want to
re-invent that wheel.) Some considerations:
- Mainly we just need to pull the content text out of the HTML
- A few tags might have special weight or significance (h1, etc.)
- Unfortunately, nearly all the HTML is broken, because all our test
data was provided by this software that truncates the data after a
certain length.
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**Author:**  [@jnb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jnb)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/advice-for-html-project/191532/2 "2010-07-14T02:22:47Z")
Excerpts from Jonathan B.'s message of Wed Jul 14 01:38:31 +0200 2010:
> I helping my boss with some scripting for a web analysis research
> project. He handles vocabulary and analysis, while I am using ruby parse
> WARC files and the actual HTML.
>
> Anyway, I’m still fairly new to Ruby. I did the WARC parsing, but I was
> wondering what I should use for the HTML parser. (Didn’t want to
> re-invent that wheel.) Some considerations:
> Google for nokogiri. That’s one solution.
Marc W.