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rubymechanize
Matrix
Matrix

Reputation: 3369

Mechanize : get all element in element?

If I get an element <section> :

client = Mechanize.new
body   = client.get("https://www.linternaute.fr/dictionnaire/fr/definition/perdu/")
section = body.search('.dico_definition')

and I want get all occurrences of <div class="dico_title_2"> only content in this <section>

I tried :

section.search('.dico_title_2') but it gets <div class="dico_title_2"> of all pages and not only in html content in <section>.

section.at('.dico_title_2') gets <div class="dico_title_2"> in <section> but only the first occurrence...

How can I get all occurrences?

I find may be the problem :

JavaScript : document.querySelectorAll('section.dico_definition > *') returns 7 elements but data.search('section.dico_definition') returns 4 elements...

Maybe a problem in interpretation of html?

How can I do in this case ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 540

Answers (1)

Patrick C
Patrick C

Reputation: 186

Try this:

client = Mechanize.new
data   = client.get("https://www.linternaute.fr/dictionnaire/fr/definition/perdu/")
section = data.search('section//.dico_title_2')
section.first # This is the first element

^^^ This will find any tags with .dico_title_2 class nested within a section tag.

Note: Variable name body could be confused with the <body> tag content, so I'd instead call it something like html_content or data.

Upvotes: 1

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