# View Source Code in Whois.net

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/view-source-code-in-whois-net/166879>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 30, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/view-source-code-in-whois-net/166879 "2009-04-30T13:42:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dacbo)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/view-source-code-in-whois-net/166879/1 "2009-04-30T13:42:49Z")

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I am trying to view the source code in [whois.net](http://whois.net) using the following  
code:

require ‘open-uri’  
open(“[http://whois.net/whois/qoxax.com](http://whois.net/whois/qoxax.com)”) {|f|  
text = f.read  
lines = f.readlines  
text = lines.join  
text.gsub!(/\s+/," ")

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puts text

```

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The [whois.net](http://whois.net) view source has TONS of whitespace at the beginning and  
end which I am guessing is causing this to come up blank when I run this  
code but perhaps you have better ideas / luck?

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**Author:** ![dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dacbo)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/view-source-code-in-whois-net/166879/2 "2009-04-30T14:51:05Z")

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gsub!(/\>\s+\</, ‘\>\<’) maybe?

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**Author:** ![dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dacbo)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/view-source-code-in-whois-net/166879/3 "2009-04-30T16:50:37Z")

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Chris Berry wrote:

> The [whois.net](http://whois.net) view source has TONS of whitespace at the beginning and  
> end which I am guessing is causing this to come up blank when I run this  
> code but perhaps you have better ideas / luck?

string.lstrip.rstrip will get rid of a lot of it.

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**Author:** ![dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dacbo)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/view-source-code-in-whois-net/166879/4 "2009-04-30T17:30:46Z")

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Why are you trying to view the source? You’re not planning to parse  
HTML with regular expressions, are you? There are much better  
libraries out there for that.

– Mark.

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**Author:** ![dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dacbo)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/view-source-code-in-whois-net/166879/5 "2009-04-30T22:57:33Z")

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Chris Berry wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> Please advise on libraries??

hpricot, nokogiri, watir

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**Author:** ![dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@dacbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dacbo)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/view-source-code-in-whois-net/166879/6 "2009-04-30T20:33:38Z")

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Mark,

Please advise on libraries?? I am really trying to keep this really  
simple.