On 5/31/07, Dick Davies <rasputnik / gmail.com> wrote:
> Hpricot is a good starting point.

Yeah Hpricot is good, but in general the quality of the Ruby web scraping
choices is pretty impressive. There are variants that are just built on top
of Hpricot but provide an even simpler API.

However your second problem is a bit trickier, where you encounter
alternate encodings. To do any kind of real work with multiple code
pages you want to be converting it to unicode (UTF-8) at fetch time.

This isn't Ruby's strong point (which is not the same thing as saying
it can't do it). But there are multiple choices here - running Ruby on
JRuby (Java) just for the seamless unicode/codepage support. Hpricot
is ported to JRuby for instance. I would have a good look at what
Ruby libraries enable explicit code page conversions.

> On 31/05/07, Zhang Yin <gsofhon / gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm new to Ruby and need to parse some web pages. I googled "ruby HTML
> > parser" and have found several parser avaliable. They all seem good and
> > I'm wondering which one is better for me since I'll have to deal with
> > many pages encoded in different encoding, such UTF-8, GB2312 and GBK(For
> > Chinese). So please help me. Thanks.
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