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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 13, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-parse-html-doc-in-ruby/53659 "2006-02-13T14:01:12Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Karika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Karika)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-parse-html-doc-in-ruby/53659/1 "2006-02-13T14:01:12Z")
Hi,
I want to parse the html doc using ruby.
I tried using reXML but failed to load html doc as it is not in well
formed structure.
Can you please suggest me a good parser which I can use to parse HTML
page using Ruby?
Thanks,
Karika.
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**Author:**  [@Karika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Karika)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-parse-html-doc-in-ruby/53659/2 "2006-02-14T00:35:54Z")
Karika wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to parse the html doc using ruby.
> I tried using reXML but failed to load html doc as it is not in well
> formed structure.
> Can you please suggest me a good parser which I can use to parse HTML
> page using Ruby?
>
> Thanks,
> Karika.
I’ve had good luck with Rubyful Soup:
> **[Rubyful Soup: "The brush has got entangled in it!"](https://www.crummy.com/software/RubyfulSoup/)**
>
> Rubyful Soup: an HTML parser for Ruby, optimized for screen-scraping.
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**Author:**  [@Karika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Karika)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-parse-html-doc-in-ruby/53659/3 "2006-02-13T23:53:41Z")
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