HTML Scraping with scRUBYt! for Fun and Profit
http://advent2008.hackruby.com/past/2008/12/23/html_scraping_with_scrubyt_for_fun_and_profit/
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Navigation is fairly obvious I guess (the other actions besides fetch - which should be always present as the first step - are fill_textfield, fill_textarea, click_link, check_checkbox, check_radiobutton, select_option, submit and if you can’t submit the form automatically for some reason, click_by_xpath as the last resort.
Peter Szinek walks us through the process of scraping data from web sites with scRubyt!. Impress your friends (and even your mother!) this Christmas with your slick data mining skillz!Web Spidering and Data Extraction with scRUBYt! | Ruby Pond