On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:43:51 +0900, CJ M. wrote: > page_string='junk' > open("http://www.scatoday.net/") {|f| why not this? thufir@dur:~/ruby/html$ thufir@dur:~/ruby/html$ nl html.rb 1 require 'rubygems' 2 require 'htmlentities' 3 require 'net/http' 4 uri = URI('http://www.scatoday.net/') 5 page = Net::HTTP.get(uri) 6 puts page.scan(/\/node\/[0-9]+.*title=".*">/) thufir@dur:~/ruby/html$ however, I'm sure there's an existing gem for that. HTH, Thufir