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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 19, 2006, 7:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/downloading-web-page-as-html-accessed-through-watir/72825 "2006-10-19T07:05:48Z")\
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**Author:**  [@michael](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michael)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 7:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/downloading-web-page-as-html-accessed-through-watir/72825/1 "2006-10-19T07:05:48Z")
is there anyway to download the page accessed through WATIR as html
page??
for instance,
require ‘watir’
ie = Watir::IE.start(“[http://www.yahoo.com](http://www.yahoo.com)”)
above codes will open [www.yahoo.com](http://www.yahoo.com)… what should we do to download
this page as yahoo.htm??
any suggestion or hints will be deeply appreciated…
michael
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**Author:**  [@michael](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michael)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/downloading-web-page-as-html-accessed-through-watir/72825/2 "2006-10-22T02:21:19Z")
ie.html is what you are looking for
aFile = File.new(“yahoo.htm” , “w”)
aFile \<\< ie.html
aFile.close
and if you want to view the file then
ie.goto(“yahoo.htm”)
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**Author:**  [@michael](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michael)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/downloading-web-page-as-html-accessed-through-watir/72825/3 "2006-10-22T15:20:45Z")
michael wrote:
> above codes will open [www.yahoo.com](http://www.yahoo.com)… what should we do to download
> this page as yahoo.htm??
>
> any suggestion or hints will be deeply appreciated…
If this is all you need, you might as well use Net:HTTP, or open-uri -
this should have smaller overhead since you’re not instantiating an IE
control.
require ‘open-uri’
open(‘[http://www.yahoo.com/](http://www.yahoo.com/)’) { |html|
open(‘yahoo.html’, ‘w’) { |out|
out.print(html.read)
}
}
David V.
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**Author:**  [@michael](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michael)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/downloading-web-page-as-html-accessed-through-watir/72825/4 "2006-10-24T01:55:42Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:
> ie.html is what you are looking for
>
> aFile = File.new(“yahoo.htm” , “w”)
> aFile \<\< ie.html
> aFile.close
>
> and if you want to view the file then
>
> ie.goto(“yahoo.htm”)
Be very very careful here, make sure you understand what you are doing.
Watir does _not_ see the HTML on the page-- Watir only sees the DOM in
Internet Explorer. If the HTML is missing a “/p\>”, for instance, Watir
can’t see it. The #html method will _always_ yield valid HTML, because
it it interpreting the DOM, regardless of how awful the original HTML
may or may not be.