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downloading web page as HTML accessed through WATIR

michael

10/19/2006 5:03:00 AM

is there anyway to download the page accessed through WATIR as html
page??

for instance,


require 'watir'

ie = Watir::IE.start("http://www.yahoo...)


above codes will open www.yahoo.com.. what should we do to download
this page as yahoo.htm??

any suggestion or hints will be deeply appreciated..


michael
3 Answers

lrlebron@gmail.com

10/22/2006 12:17:00 AM

0

ie.html is what you are looking for

aFile = File.new("yahoo.htm" , "w")
aFile << ie.html
aFile.close

and if you want to view the file then

ie.goto("yahoo.htm")

michael wrote:
> is there anyway to download the page accessed through WATIR as html
> page??
>
> for instance,
>
>
> require 'watir'
>
> ie = Watir::IE.start("http://www.yahoo...)
>
>
> above codes will open www.yahoo.com.. what should we do to download
> this page as yahoo.htm??
>
> any suggestion or hints will be deeply appreciated..
>
>
> michael

David Vallner

10/22/2006 1:19:00 PM

0

michael wrote:
> is there anyway to download the page accessed through WATIR as html
> page??
>
> for instance,
>
>
> require 'watir'
>
> ie = Watir::IE.start("http://www.yahoo...)
>
>
> above codes will open www.yahoo.com.. what should we do to download
> this page as yahoo.htm??
>
> any suggestion or hints will be deeply appreciated..
>
>

If this is all you need, you might as well use Net:HTTP, or open-uri -
this should have smaller overhead since you're not instantiating an IE
control.

require 'open-uri'

open('http://www.yahoo...) { |html|
open('yahoo.html', 'w') { |out|
out.print(html.read)
}
}

David Vallner

Chris McMahon

10/23/2006 11:53:00 PM

0


lrlebron@gmail.com wrote:
> ie.html is what you are looking for
>
> aFile = File.new("yahoo.htm" , "w")
> aFile << ie.html
> aFile.close
>
> and if you want to view the file then
>
> ie.goto("yahoo.htm")

Be very very careful here, make sure you understand what you are doing.
Watir does *not* see the HTML on the page-- Watir only sees the DOM in
Internet Explorer. If the HTML is missing a "/p>", for instance, Watir
can't see it. The #html method will *always* yield valid HTML, because
it it interpreting the DOM, regardless of how awful the original HTML
may or may not be.