Class: BreakingNews::Scraper

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/breaking_news/scraper.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#scrape_root(root_url) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/breaking_news/scraper.rb', line 5

def scrape_root(root_url)
  
  root_page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(root_url)) 
  
  target_url = "http://www.bbc.com/#{root_page.css("div.buzzard-item a").attribute("href").value}"
  target_page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(target_url))
  h = {}
  h[:headline] = target_page.css("h1.story-body__h1").text
  h[:date] = target_page.css("li.mini-info-list__item div").text
  h[:p1] = target_page.css("div.story-body__inner p:nth-child(1)").text
  h[:p2] = target_page.css("div.story-body__inner p:nth-child(2)").text
  h[:p3] = target_page.css("div.story-body__inner p:nth-child(3)").text
  h[:p4] = target_page.css("div.story-body__inner p:nth-child(4)").text
  h[:p5] = target_page.css("div.story-body__inner p:nth-child(5)").text
  h
  #binding.pry

end