Best Rails HTML Parser [closed]

Answer 1

There are multiple tools available. I use Nokogiri.

Demo:

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'

doc = Nokogiri::HTML(%{
  
Hello, World
  
Some text
  Some link
})

title   = doc.at_css("h1.title").text
content = doc.at_css("p").text
url     = doc.at_css("a")[:href]

Ryan Bates made an excelent screencast about using it: #190: Screen Scraping with Nokogiri.

Documentation: http://nokogiri.org/

Tutorials: http://nokogiri.org/tutorials