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namespace :scraper do | |
task scrape: :environment do | |
# the url we want to scrape | |
url = "http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=lp_2619525011_nr_n_5?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A2619525011%2Cn%3A%212619526011%2Cn%3A2686328011&bbn=2619526011&ie=UTF8&qid=1462292509&rnid=2619526011" | |
# get the raw HTML content | |
response = HTTParty.get url | |
html = response.body | |
# get the root document so we can parse it using CSS selectors | |
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html) | |
# Get each product on the page (#atfResults ul li) | |
doc.css("#atfResults ul li").each do |product| | |
# get the text content of the h2 element for each li item | |
title = product.css("h2").text | |
product = Product.new | |
product.title = title | |
product.save | |
end | |
end | |
end |
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