Why not just use like watir or selenium?
Because then you're running an entire browser when all you really need is an HTTP library and a parser.
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Why not just use like watir or selenium?
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If I understand you right, you have a lot of different data types to scrape, so essentially you have a sub-program for each data type and when a page is downloaded, you let each of these have a go at the page and emit content if it finds any? Or did I completely miss the point?
Yeah, I think we're on the same page. I just hacked together a quick example at this gist: https://gist.github.com/boie0025/ae9697eed61cbf5342a6