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Created November 18, 2012 19:39
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you_tube_scaper_basic.rb
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
puts "What YouTube URL do want information on?"
url = gets.chomp
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
subscribers = doc.css('span.stat-value')[0].content
views = doc.css('span.stat-value')[1].content
puts "This channel has " + subscribers + " subscribers and " + views + " total views"
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