Class: Scraper

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/Scraper.rb

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.scrape_page(clinic_url = "http://callen-lorde.org/meet-our-providers/") ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/Scraper.rb', line 10

def self.scrape_page(clinic_url = "http://callen-lorde.org/meet-our-providers/")
  html = open(clinic_url)
  doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html)

  #name_qualifications_title = doc.css(".middleColumn_three").css('h3').first.text.split(",")
  #name = name_qualifications_title[0]
  #qualification = name_qualifications_title[1]
  #title = name_qualifications_title[2]

  #team_specialties_languages = doc.css(".middleColumn_three").css('ul').first.text
  #t_s_l_array = team_specialties_languages.split("\n").reject { |n| n == "" }

  #cleaned_t_s_l_array = t_s_l_array.map do |ele|
  #  ele.gsub(/\w+[:]/, "").strip
  #end

  #team = cleaned_t_s_l_array[0]
  #specialties = cleaned_t_s_l_array[1]
  #languages = cleaned_t_s_l_array[2]


  attr_hash = Hash.new
  array_of_providers = Array.new


  #getting name, qualification and title attributes for a secific provider
  doc.css(".middleColumn_three").css('h3').each do |provider|
    new_hash = Hash.new
    name_qualification_title = provider.text.split(",")
    new_hash[:name] = name_qualification_title[0].gsub(/\w+[MD]/, "").strip
    new_hash[:qualification] = name_qualification_title[1].strip
    if name_qualification_title[2] != nil
      new_hash[:title] = name_qualification_title[2].strip
    end
    array_of_providers << new_hash
  end

  #getting the team, specialties and languages attributes for a specific provider
  i = 0
  doc.css(".middleColumn_three").css('ul').each do |provider|
    team_specialties_languanges = provider.text.split("\n").reject { |n| n == "" }

    #remove words that end with ":"
    team_specialties_languanges = team_specialties_languanges.map do |ele|
      ele.gsub(/\w+[:]/, "").strip
    end

    #accointing for use case where attribute team is missing
    if team_specialties_languanges.size == 2
      array_of_providers[i][:specialties] = team_specialties_languanges[0].strip
      array_of_providers[i][:languages] = team_specialties_languanges[1]

    else
      array_of_providers[i][:team] = team_specialties_languanges[0]
      array_of_providers[i][:specialties] = team_specialties_languanges[1]
      array_of_providers[i][:languages] = team_specialties_languanges[2]

    end

    if i < 46
      i += 1
    end

  end

  #creatign instances from our array of hashes
  array_of_providers.each do |provider|
    Providers.new(provider)

  end

end