Hpricot scraping in ruby

Include gems/library required before getting started
require 'hpricot'
require 'net/http'
require 'rio'
# Pass website url to be scraped
url = "www.funonrails.com"

# Define filename to store file locally
file = "temp.html"
# Save page locally
rio(url) < rio (file)
# Open page through hpricot
doc = Hpricot(open(file))

Apply hpricot library to get right contents

doc.at("div.pageTitle")
doc/"div.pageTitle"
doc.search("div.entry")
doc//"div.pageTitle"

Hpricot API Reference click here

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