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Created November 8, 2016 07:07
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fivethirtyeight-election.rb
require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/'))
puts 'CLINTON '+doc.css('.winprob-bar .candidate.one.dem .candidate-val.winprob').text+' - '+doc.css('.winprob-bar .candidate.three.rep .candidate-val.winprob').text+' TRUMP'
# bash for geektool:
# ruby -e "require 'open-uri'; require 'nokogiri'; doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/')); puts 'CLINTON '+doc.css('.winprob-bar .candidate.one.dem .candidate-val.winprob').text+' - '+doc.css('.winprob-bar .candidate.three.rep .candidate-val.winprob').text+' TRUMP'"
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