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Table of Contents

• About the Project
  • Built With
  • Usage
• Author
• Contributing
• Acknowledgements

About The Project

This is a scraper, a program written in Ruby.This specific scraper is built to scrape posts and authors from “Dev.to” site.Using the Nokogiri Gem to parse the HTML from the site,open URI to open the file in security, and some string manipulations to format them better for human readability.

Built With

This project was built using these technologies.

• Ruby
• Rubocop
• VsCode
• Open URI
• Nokogiri Gem
• Bundler Gem (for repl.it live Demo)

Live version

Usage

If you want to install and use the scraper you need:

• Ruby installed in your computer, version 2.6.5 recommended.
• Go to https://github.com/ioilmio/web-scraper

• Click the green button

  • Clone over HTTPS

• Go into your terminal and type

   $ git clone https://github.com/ioilmio/web-scraper.git

  or

  $ git clone ctrl + shift + v

• Type on your terminal bin/scraper.rb to get a list of articles.

You will get a lixt.txt file containing an Hash, in this Hash you can find clickable links for your article of interest.

Automated test

To run automated tests you can just type

rspec

rspec —format doc

Author

👤 Illuminato Salvatore

• Twitter: @ioilmio
• Github: @ioilmio
• LinkedIn @IlluminatoSalvatore

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check the issues page.

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Give a ⭐️ if you like this project!

Acknowledgements

• Microverse
• The Odin Project
• Ruby Documentation
• Nokogiri tutorial
• Dev.to For the their data, and awesomeness.