comp.lang.ruby

Aaron Patterson

6/14/2007 2:33:00 AM

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:59:53AM +0900, Colin Summers wrote:
> Okay, I managed to get mechanize to login for me. Now I am pulling
> down a vBulletin page which has a thread on it:
>
> # pull down a thread
> puts "Thread:\n"
> page =
> agent.get('http://dapo.org/forums/archive/index.php?t-2293.html?...)
> pp page
>
> but all I get is:
> Thread:
> #<WWW::Mechanize::Page
> {url
> #<URI::HTTP:0x333ef2
> URL:http://dapo.org/forums/archive/index.php?t-229...}
> {meta}
> {title
> "Alternator failure For Real This Time [Archive] - Diamond Aircraft
> Pilots/Owners Organization"}
> {iframes}
> {frames}
> {links
> #<WWW::Mechanize::Link
> "Diamond Aircraft Pilots/Owners Organization"
> "index.php">
> #<WWW::Mechanize::Link "General" "index.php?f-1.html">
> #<WWW::Mechanize::Link "Discussions" "index.php?f-4.html">
> #<WWW::Mechanize::Link "PDA" "index.php?pda=1">
> #<WWW::Mechanize::Link
> "Alternator failure For Real This Time"
> "http://www.dapo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2293...}
> {forms}>
>
>
>
> It's cool that I have a data structure for the links, but, um, where's
> the text of the page? That's the stuff I *want*.

Try this:

puts page.body

Hope that helps! Also, make sure to add yourself to the mechanize
mailing list. You will probably get more prompt responses. :-)

http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mecha...

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