Ruby Web Scraping Tutorial

While Python is the most popular language for data scraping, Ruby easily comes in second place as its simplicity, performance, and smoothness complement even the hardest web scraping tasks. Watch this video to see it in action.

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Ruby is packed with many valuable packages, and its syntax simplicity allows users to write a web scraper in little time. But in any case, Ruby web scraping isn’t as easy as it might sound, so we’ve made this tutorial to get you on track without a hassle.

This video goes over the general steps of web scraping with Ruby. Following the steps, you’ll build two web scrapers: one for static and one for dynamic web pages. We’ll show you how to make HTTP requests, extract data, and save it to a CSV file.

Before jumping in, you’ll need to install the required Ruby packages. See their official documentation for more information:

Additionally, you can find the complete Ruby code files in our GitHub repository:

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0:00 Ruby Web Scraping Tutorial
0:27 Installing Ruby
1:05 Installing All the Gems
1:56 Scraping Static Pages
2:09 Making an HTTP Request
2:55 Parsing HTML
4:56 Handling Pagination
5:31 Writing Scraped Data to a CSV File
6:29 Scraping Dynamic Pages
7:37 Locating HTML Elements via CSS Selectors
8:44 Handling Pagination
9:37 Extracting Data to a CSV File
10:23 Ending

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Happy to see Ruby web scraping tutorial in 2023. Thanks Oxy.