Class: BoxingSchedules::Scraper

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/boxing-schedules/scraper.rb

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.open_scheduled_fights ⇒ Object

sets url for boxing schedules webpage, opens the page with Nokogiri.



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# File 'lib/boxing-schedules/scraper.rb', line 4

def self.open_scheduled_fights
  url = "https://schedule.boxingscene.com/"
  Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
end

.scrape_scheduled_fights ⇒ Object

loops through all upcoming fights on boxingscene. scrapes all the fight details and sets fight attributes. saves them to the Fight class variable all.



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# File 'lib/boxing-schedules/scraper.rb', line 13

def self.scrape_scheduled_fights
  content = self.open_scheduled_fights.css("div.schedules") 
  number_of_fights = open_scheduled_fights.css(".vs").size
  i = 0
  while i <  number_of_fights
    fight = BoxingSchedules::Fight.new
    fight.channel_location = content.css("p.fight-channels")[i].text.split.join(" ")
    fight.fighter_names = content.css(".schedule-details-block div div")[i].text.split.join(" ").strip
    fight.fight_time = content.css(".schedule-time-block")[i].text.split.join(" ")
    fight.fight_details = content.css(".schedule-details-block")[i].text.split.join(" ")
    fight.fight_url = "https://schedule.boxingscene.com/" +  content.css("a")[i].attr("href")
    fight.save
    i += 1
  end
end