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February 16, 2014 22:37
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Flatiron Scraper
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require 'nokogiri' | |
require 'open-uri' | |
require 'pry' | |
class Scraper | |
def initialize | |
@student_data = [] | |
@index_url = "http://students.flatironschool.com/" | |
@index = Nokogiri::HTML(open(@index_url)) | |
end | |
def call | |
scrape_index_data | |
scrape_student_data | |
self.all | |
end | |
def all | |
@student_data | |
end | |
def scrape_index_data | |
@index.css("li.home-blog-post").each_with_index do |element, index| | |
@student_data[index] ||= {} | |
@student_data[index][:href] = element.css("a").attr("href").text | |
if @student_data[index][:href] == "students/scottluptowski.html" | |
@student_data[index][:name] = "Scott Luptowski" | |
else | |
@student_data[index][:name] = element.css("h3 a").text | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
def scrape_student_data | |
@student_data.each do |student_hash| | |
temp_page = "#{@index_url}#{student_hash[:href]}" | |
student_page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(temp_page)) | |
data_from_student_page(student_hash, student_page) | |
end | |
end | |
def data_from_student_page(student_hash, student_page) | |
student_hash[:social] ||= {} | |
student_hash[:social][:twitter] = student_page.css(".icon-twitter").first.parent.attr("href") | |
student_hash[:social][:github] = student_page.css(".icon-github").first.parent.attr("href") | |
student_hash[:social][:linkedin] = student_page.css(".icon-linkedin-sign").first.parent.attr("href") | |
# student_hash[:social][:blog] = student_page.css(".icon-rss").first.parent.attr("href") | |
end | |
end | |
a = Scraper.new | |
students = a.call | |
binding.pry | |
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