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martinsurleweb
martinsurleweb

Reputation: 79

Select table in Mechanize (ruby)

I try with my internet-bot to get infos from a table on a website. The table has just "map_table" as id (CSS attribute) tr has "map_tr" and for a cell it's "map_td".

I want to detect the cells with a link containing "msg.php" in their href. Ex :

<td id="map_td">
<a href="index.php"></a>
</td>

This one has not to be selected

<td id="map_td">
<a href="msg.php?id=1392"></a>
</td>

This one has to be selected. I have searched in the Mechanize doc, in forums, I haven't found anything. Can you help me ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 481

Answers (1)

pguardiario
pguardiario

Reputation: 55002

That should be:

page.search('td:has(a[href*="msg.php"])')

It's the Nokogiri docs that you want look at, but really, the CSS or XPath specs if you're not familiar with either of them.

Upvotes: 1

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