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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 18, 2009, 6:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-html-scraping/163195 "2009-03-18T06:56:02Z")\
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**Author:**  [@arunvoip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arunvoip)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 6:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-html-scraping/163195/1 "2009-03-18T06:56:02Z")
Hi,
I’ve to extract the full html from a website url using regular
expressions or ‘net-http’. Can anybody help me with the code to extract
the full html content of a website. I need to use only regexp or
‘net:http’
Thanks
Arun K.
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**Author:**  [@arunvoip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arunvoip)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 10:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-html-scraping/163195/2 "2009-03-18T10:41:08Z")
Arun K. wrote:
> Hi,
> I’ve to extract the full html from a website url using regular
> expressions or ‘net-http’. Can anybody help me with the code to extract
> the full html content of a website. I need to use only regexp or
> ‘net:http’
require ‘net/http’
Net::HTTP.start(“[www.google.com](http://www.google.com)”) do |http|
resp = http.get(“/”)
puts resp.body[0…100]
end
–output:–
Google
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**Author:**  [@arunvoip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arunvoip)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 11:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-html-scraping/163195/3 "2009-03-18T11:13:10Z")
2009/3/18 Arun K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):
> I’ve to extract the full html from a website url using regular
> expressions or ‘net-http’.
What kind of question is that? Use net-http OR regular expressions -
I mean, both serve totally different purposes. You cannot exchange
one for the other. You’ll have difficulties to obtain the content
using regular expressions only…
Wondering…
robert