20080325 Parsing a del.icio.us export with Hpricot

The trickiest part is to detect if a bookmark has a corresponding description. The export is in the same format that Netscape used for its bookmarks export, which means it is a simple html file with a definition list (dl) and a series of definition terms (dt). A term (=bookmarks) may have a description (dd). [...]

20070615 Extracting data with Hpricot

For those (few) of you which haven’t heard about it, Hpricot is a nice library for parsing HTML in ruby, created by the even nicer _whytheluckystiff, author of Poignant’s Guide to Ruby, Camping and other ruby gems (may you excuse the pun? it was impossible to avoid it). Since I saw one demonstration by Rob [...]