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HuffPost 100 most recent links for tag
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| require 'rubygems' | |
| require 'nokogiri' | |
| require 'httparty' | |
| def scrape(tag) | |
| links = [] | |
| (1..4).each do |n| | |
| new_links = scrape_tag_page "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/#{tag}/#{n}" | |
| break if new_links.empty? | |
| links += new_links | |
| end | |
| links | |
| end | |
| def scrape_tag_page(tag_page_url) | |
| response = HTTParty.get tag_page_url | |
| page = Nokogiri::HTML(response) | |
| page.css('.entry h3 a').map { |link| link['href'] } | |
| end |
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