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June 29, 2012 04:08
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scrapes the top alexa sites. For http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=17578
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## | |
# How to run: | |
# ruby scrape.alexa.rb | |
# | |
# Output: | |
# 20 files each with the data in csv format | |
# | |
# Dependencies: | |
# ruby version > 1.9 # "ruby -v" to check | |
# nokogiri gem # "gem install nokogiri" to install | |
## | |
require 'nokogiri' | |
require 'open-uri' | |
require 'csv' | |
def bar(li) | |
begin | |
site_name=li.css(".desc-container h2 a")[0].content | |
site_link=li.css(".desc-container .topsites-label")[0].content | |
site_rank = li.css(".count")[0].content | |
[site_rank, site_link, site_link] | |
rescue | |
[] | |
end | |
end | |
def foo1(url) | |
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url)) | |
listings=doc.css(".site-listing") | |
output = listings.collect{|li| bar(li) } | |
end | |
def foo2(data, i) | |
CSV.open("alexa-#{i}","w") do |csv| | |
data.each{|o| csv << o} | |
end | |
end | |
urls = (1..20).to_a.map{|i| "http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries;#{i}/IN "} | |
urls.each_with_index do |url,i| | |
data=foo1(url) | |
foo2(data,i) | |
end | |
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Hey there @zerothabhishek currently this script is spitting out 20 empty files. Any ideas how to get it working?