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Rubyful Soup is a Ruby port of the hit Python HTML/XML parser Beautiful Soup.
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It's designed to be a useful quick-and-dirty parser for screen-scraping,
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along the same lines as its parent:
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1. Rubyful Soup won't choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree
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that makes approximately as much sense as your original document.
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This is usually good enough to collect the data you need and then run away.
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2. Rubyful Soup provides a few simple methods and Ruby-like idioms for
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navigating and searching a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document
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and extracting what you need. You don't have to create a custom parser for
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each application. It's more flexible and easier to learn than XPath.
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WWW: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
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