Comments on: Parsing a del.icio.us export with Hpricot http://soledadpenades.com/2008/03/25/parsing-a-delicious-export-with-hpricot/ repeat 4[fd 100 rt 90] Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:38:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Marq http://soledadpenades.com/2008/03/25/parsing-a-delicious-export-with-hpricot/#comment-57382 Marq Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:48:04 +0000 http://soledadpenades.com/2008/03/25/parsing-a-delicious-export-with-hpricot/#comment-57382 Hey Soledad, Thanks for pointing out the next.name thingy with Hpricot... I didn't want to waste more than an hour to parse my delicious bookmarks, and I almost ended up taking sed to the bookmarks HTML file so that I could add the title as an attribute within the <A> instead of the next DD thing. I'm pretty sure Yahoo isn't giving us a nice XML document because it fears people will move away to other services such as Google bookmarks---which is exactly what I'm planning to do. Anyway, if you don't like the if/else loops, you can just do something like the following for the same result: (doc/"dl/dt").each do |bkmk| link = (bkmk/"a") b = Hash.new b[:title] = link.inner_text b[:url] = link.attr('HREF') b[:tags] = link.attr('TAGS').split(",") if link.attr('TAGS') b[:created_at] = link.attr('ADD_DATE') b[:description] = bkmk.next.inner_text if bkmk.next.name == 'dd' bookmarks << b end Hey Soledad,

Thanks for pointing out the next.name thingy with Hpricot… I didn’t want to waste more than an hour to parse my delicious bookmarks, and I almost ended up taking sed to the bookmarks HTML file so that I could add the title as an attribute within the instead of the next DD thing. I’m pretty sure Yahoo isn’t giving us a nice XML document because it fears people will move away to other services such as Google bookmarks—which is exactly what I’m planning to do.

Anyway, if you don’t like the if/else loops, you can just do something like the following for the same result:

(doc/”dl/dt”).each do |bkmk|
link = (bkmk/”a”)
b = Hash.new
b[:title] = link.inner_text
b[:url] = link.attr(‘HREF’)
b[:tags] = link.attr(‘TAGS’).split(“,”) if link.attr(‘TAGS’)
b[:created_at] = link.attr(‘ADD_DATE’)
b[:description] = bkmk.next.inner_text if bkmk.next.name == ‘dd’

bookmarks << b

end

]]> By: sole http://soledadpenades.com/2008/03/25/parsing-a-delicious-export-with-hpricot/#comment-49411 sole Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:14:08 +0000 http://soledadpenades.com/2008/03/25/parsing-a-delicious-export-with-hpricot/#comment-49411 Hey thanks! :-) although it's not that funky, it's just a mix of everything, and it's funny! Hey thanks! :-)

although it’s not that funky, it’s just a mix of everything, and it’s funny!

]]> By: Wayne http://soledadpenades.com/2008/03/25/parsing-a-delicious-export-with-hpricot/#comment-49410 Wayne Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:05:44 +0000 http://soledadpenades.com/2008/03/25/parsing-a-delicious-export-with-hpricot/#comment-49410 Soledad, Thank you for sharing your examples of using Hpricot. Your examples save me much time learning Hpricot's "funky" syntax. --Wayne Soledad,

Thank you for sharing your examples of using Hpricot. Your examples save me much time learning Hpricot’s “funky” syntax.

–Wayne

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