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Kickstarter_scrape
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| # Kickstarter Project Scrape | |
| require 'nokogiri' | |
| # HTML, XML parser that allows us to view HTML code as series of nodes; able to highlight elements via CSS selectors | |
| require 'open-uri' | |
| # Module that allows you to make http request, and returns us the HTML content of a URL via the `open` command | |
| require 'pry' | |
| # projects | |
| # kickstarter.css("li.project.grid_4") | |
| # title | |
| # project.css("h2.bbcard_name strong a").text | |
| # image_link | |
| # project.css("div.project-thumbnail a img").attribute("src").value | |
| # description | |
| # project.css("p.bbcard_blurb").text | |
| # location | |
| # project.css("ul.project-meta span.location-name").text | |
| # percent_funded | |
| # project.css("ul.project-stats li.first.funded strong").text --> .gsub("%", "").to_i | |
| # 1 - projects hash | |
| # 2 - name of project as the key | |
| ### want this to be converted to a symbol | |
| # 3 - project attributes as the values stored within a hash | |
| ### key stored as a symbol | |
| # 4 - image_link setup | |
| # 5 - description setup | |
| # 6 - location setup | |
| # 7 - percent_funded setup | |
| # projects = { | |
| # :the_penguin_factory => { | |
| # :image_link => "http://www.penguins.com/", | |
| # :description => "A place where dreams come true", | |
| # :location => "Paradise Bay, Antarctica", | |
| # :percent_funded => 10 | |
| # } | |
| # } | |
| # projects[:the_penguin_factory][:location] = "Paradise Bay, Antarctica" | |
| html = File.read('fixtures/kickstarter.html') | |
| kickstarter = Nokogiri::HTML(html) | |
| projects = Hash.new | |
| kickstarter.css("li.project.grid_4").each do |project| | |
| title = project.css("h2.bbcard_name strong a").text.to_sym | |
| projects[title] = { | |
| :image_link => project.css("div.project-thumbnail a img").attribute("src").value, | |
| :description => project.css("p.bbcard_blurb").text, | |
| :location => project.css("ul.project-meta span.location-name").text, | |
| :percent_funder => project.css("ul.project-stats li.first.funded strong").text.gsub("%", "").to_i | |
| } | |
| end | |
| binding.pry | |
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