Stephen's home built image scrapper.

image_scrape_3000.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
require 'uri'

puts "what website would you like to scrape?"
link = gets.chomp
URL = link

def make_absolute( href, root )
  URI.parse(root).merge(URI.parse(href)).to_s
end

Nokogiri::HTML(open(URL)).xpath("//img/@src").each do |src|
  uri = make_absolute(src,URL)
  File.open(File.basename(uri),'wb'){ |f|p f.methods; f.write(open(uri).read) }
end