2007/8/27, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger / gmail.com>: > That's not to prevent web scraping, it's just that web sites are > pretty transitory. They change all the time and very easily. This > makes web sophisticated web scraping a moving target. Yes, web scraping using just open-uri and regular expressions is pretty low-level. Try Hpricot or scRUBYt for a higher level, more flexible, scraping. -- Jaime Iniesta http://jaimeiniesta.com - http://railes.net - http://freelancegirona.com