Grabbing Text From a Website

Ruby
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Let’s say I wanted to make a program that traversed all 125 products on
this page:http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/Best-Grocery-Foods/, grabbed
the text from each one, and compiled them into a list in a text file.

First off, is this even possible? If so, can you give me some links or
advice that would aid me in this grand project?

Thank you!

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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Kyle M. [email protected]
wrote:

Let’s say I wanted to make a program that traversed all 125 products on
this page:http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/Best-Grocery-Foods/, grabbed
the text from each one, and compiled them into a list in a text file.

First off, is this even possible? If so, can you give me some links or
advice that would aid me in this grand project?

I have used: mechanize, scrubyt, and firewatir

http://www.rubyrailways.com/data-extraction-for-web-20-screen-scraping-in-rubyrails

http://www.johnyerhot.com/2008/05/19/anatomy-of-a-ruby-web-scraper/