Class: Scraper

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

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.scrape_rt ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/fish_finder/scraper.rb', line 3

def self.scrape_rt
html = open ('http://www.eregulations.com/massachusetts/fishing/saltwater/commonly-caught-species/')
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html)
#makes a string in an array

list_objs = doc.css('.Basic-Graphics-Frame')
  #scrapes site further
list_objs.each.with_index do |fish, i| 
  fish_name = fish.css('h3').text
    #grabs just the fish name
  is_fish_name_empty = fish_name.to_s.empty?
    #within the code there is few without descriptions  
  if !is_fish_name_empty
      fish_description = fish.css('p')[0].text  
    Fish.new(fish_name, fish_description)
    end
  end
end