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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 22, 2006, 11:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-html-tools-ruby-htmltools-examples/55601 "2006-03-22T11:14:04Z")\
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**Author:**  [@joes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joes)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 11:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-html-tools-ruby-htmltools-examples/55601/1 "2006-03-22T11:14:04Z")
Hi,
I have searched a lot of sites and newsgroups on the best approach to
build a simple screen scraper/HTML parser with Ruby. I’ve gone down
the road of using ruby-htmltools ([http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/](http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/)).
However there is a big scarcity of any documentation on this and I was
looking for any examples which anyone may have that I could learn from.
Thanks.
Joe
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**Author:**  [@joes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joes)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-html-tools-ruby-htmltools-examples/55601/2 "2006-03-23T15:35:19Z")
joes wrote:
> Hi,
> I have searched a lot of sites and newsgroups on the best approach to
> build a simple screen scraper/HTML parser with Ruby. I’ve gone down
> the road of using ruby-htmltools ([http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/](http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/)).
> However there is a big scarcity of any documentation on this and I was
> looking for any examples which anyone may have that I could learn from.
> Thanks.
> Joe
You may also consider 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:**  [@joes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joes)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-html-tools-ruby-htmltools-examples/55601/3 "2006-03-24T17:54:10Z")
joes wrote:
> Hi,
> I have searched a lot of sites and newsgroups on the best approach to
> build a simple screen scraper/HTML parser with Ruby. I’ve gone down
> the road of using ruby-htmltools ([http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/](http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/)).
> However there is a big scarcity of any documentation on this and I was
> looking for any examples which anyone may have that I could learn from.
I use Mechanize to grab content from several Cafe Press sites and
reassemble them into [rubystuff.com](http://rubystuff.com)
> **[How I Did It: Building RubyStuff.com](https://neurogami.com/cafe-fetcher/)**
>
> A microformat that eases the transition from page to print with CSS and HTML
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