Scraping Example

gistfile1.rb

# Scraping Most Voted Hackernews
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

# Get all the Posts on Hackernews
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://ycombinator.com/'))
# Figure out their vote count
stories = hacker_news.css("span.comhead")

# stories.first.class
# stories.class
# stories.first.parent.css("a").to_s
# stories.first.parent.css("a").to_text

stories.each do |source_doc|
  title = source_doc.parent.css("a").to_text
	href = source.doc.parent.css("a").attr("href").to_s
	#raise href.inspect
	stories << { :title, :href => href }

# get story array to mirror subtext array

# Sort that array by vote count

vote_counts = hacker_news.css("td.subtext.span").collect {|e| e.text }
vote_counts.each_with_index do |vote, idx|
	stories[i][:vote_count]

stories.each do |story_hash|