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Screen Scraping with Ruby Jeremy Raines [email_address]
Pre-Reqs ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Rubular ,[object Object]
XPATH basics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Not-so-secret weapon: Firebug ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Example
Example (con't) ,[object Object],[object Object]
How do we get at the data in these elements using Ruby? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
My Process ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Example:  Scraping Quotes from your Tumblr
Warning ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
References ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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