scraping.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# From: http://ngauthier.com/2014/06/scraping-the-web-with-ruby.html

require 'capybara'
require 'capybara/poltergeist'
require 'csv'
require 'gdbm'

class NickBot
  include Capybara::DSL

  def initialize(io = STDOUT)
    Capybara.default_driver = :poltergeist
    @io = io
  end

  def scrape
    visit "http://ngauthier.com/"
    all(".posts .post").each do |post|
      article = Article.from_summary(post)
      next unless article.new_record?
      article.save
    end

    Article.each do |article|
      next if article.body
      visit "http://ngauthier.com#{article.url}"
      has_content?(article.title) or raise "couldn't load #{url}"
      article.body = find("article").text
      article.save
    end

    CSV(@io) do |csv|
      csv << ["Title", "URL", "Date", "Summary", "Body"]
      Article.each do |article|
        csv << [
          article.title,
          article.url,
          article.date,
          article.summary,
          article.body
        ]
      end
    end
  end

  class Article < OpenStruct
    DB = GDBM.new("articles.db")

    def self.from_summary(node)
      new(
        title:   node.find("h3 a").text,
        url:     node.find("h3 a")["href"],
        date:    node.find("h3 small").text,
        summary: node.find("p.preview").text,
      )
    end

    def self.each
      DB.each do |url, json|
        yield Article.new(JSON.load(json))
      end
    end

    def save
      DB[url] = to_h.to_json
    end

    def new_record?
      DB[url].nil?
    end
  end
end

NickBot.new(STDOUT).scrape