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convert a html table to CSV using ruby
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# run using ```rvm jruby-1.6.7 do jruby "-J-Xmx2000m" "--1.9" tej.rb``` | |
require 'rubygems' | |
require 'nokogiri' | |
require 'csv' | |
f = File.open("/tmp/preview.html") | |
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(f) | |
csv = CSV.open("/tmp/output.csv", 'w',{:col_sep => ",", :quote_char => '\'', :force_quotes => true}) | |
#doc.xpath('//table/tbody/tr').take(10).each do |row| | |
doc.xpath('//table/tbody/tr').each do |row| | |
tarray = [] | |
row.xpath('td').each do |cell| | |
tarray << cell.text | |
end | |
csv << tarray | |
end | |
csv.close |
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So good!!