What is the ruby equivalent of the python BeautifulSoup library?

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I'm looking for a forgiving HTML parser for scraping HTML and extracting data in Ruby. I've had success using BeautifulSoup for this - what is the ruby equivalent?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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Nokogiri

Also see: Nokogiri vs Hpricot before making a choice. Nokogiri seems to outdo hpricot performance-wise (haven't benchmarked myself) and has a nice syntax IMO.

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answered Sep 15 '10 at 21:51

Uku Loskit

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Thank you. I used Nokogiri and it was sufficient for my purposes. I think the HTML I through at it was well-formed, so I have researched how fault tolerant it is. – Adam Loving Sep 16 '10 at 17:34
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Update for 2013: the Hpricot readme on github says it is no longer maintained and recommends Nokogiri instead. – antinome Jan 09 '13 at 02:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '10 at 21:50

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There was a Rubyful Soup gem, which was a Ruby port of BeautifulSoup, but it's no longer maintained and their site now recommends hpricot.

answered Sep 15 '10 at 21:50

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What is the ruby equivalent of the python BeautifulSoup library?

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