# Using Scrubyt on bad markup pages **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 28, 2009, 8:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-scrubyt-on-bad-markup-pages/166650 "2009-04-28T08:39:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rolinster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@rolinster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rolinster)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 8:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-scrubyt-on-bad-markup-pages/166650/1 "2009-04-28T08:39:05Z")
I am having trouble scrubbing a page that has bad markup. After fetching the page, the Scrubyt::Extractor exits while parsing the document. The Apple Safari web inspector shows numerous errors from the page: is not allowed inside . Moving into the . Unmatched encountered. Ignoring tag. Unmatched encountered. Ignoring tag. Unmatched encountered. Ignoring tag. Is there anyway to scrub a page with scrubyt that is poorly formated? I am using the latest version (0.4.1) of scrubyt. Thanks, Rolin ---
**Author:** ![rolinster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@rolinster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rolinster)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 10:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-scrubyt-on-bad-markup-pages/166650/2 "2009-04-28T10:16:57Z")
On Apr 27, 2009, at 23:39 , Rolin Nelson wrote: > Is there anyway to scrub a page with scrubyt that is poorly > formated? I > am using the latest version (0.4.1) of scrubyt. switch to mechanize and update your gems. scrubyt depends on hpricot and a very old version of mechanize. Mechanize now uses nokogiri instead of hpricot and is much more resilient with errors. ---
**Author:** ![rolinster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@rolinster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rolinster)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-scrubyt-on-bad-markup-pages/166650/3 "2009-04-28T15:48:33Z")
Ryan D. wrote: > On Apr 27, 2009, at 23:39 , Rolin Nelson wrote: > > > Is there anyway to scrub a page with scrubyt that is poorly > > formated? I > > am using the latest version (0.4.1) of scrubyt. > > switch to mechanize and update your gems. scrubyt depends on hpricot > and a very old version of mechanize. Mechanize now uses nokogiri > instead of hpricot and is much more resilient with errors. Thank you, I will try to use Mechanize directly. However, when I installed scrubyt 0.4.1 it did appear to have a dependency on nokogiri. I’ve cut and pasted the standard output. $ sudo gem install scrubyt-0.4.11.gem Password: Building native extensions. This could take a while… Successfully installed scrubyt-0.4.1 Successfully installed nokogiri-1.2.3 2 gems installed Installing ri documentation for scrubyt-0.4.1… Installing ri documentation for nokogiri-1.2.3… Installing RDoc documentation for scrubyt-0.4.1… Installing RDoc documentation for nokogiri-1.2.3…