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A comment on Ask HN: How to aggregate product info from other websites.
If you're wondering why, well, consider this script that "learns" how to scrape Google results (from one supplied example of output data):
google_data = Scrubyt::Extractor.define do fetch 'http://www.google.com/ncr' fill_textfield 'q', 'ruby' submit link "Ruby Programming Language" do url "href", :type => :attribute end next_page "Next", :limit => 2 end puts google_data.to_xml
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If you're wondering why, well, consider this script that "learns" how to scrape Google results (from one supplied example of output data):
Reads almost like English in the scraping part!