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class BillboardHot100Songs::Scraper

    BASE_PATH = "https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100"

    def self.scrape_main_page      

        page_data = Nokogiri::HTML(open(BASE_PATH))

        # BACKUP HTML FOR OFFLINE USE - DATA IS FOR THE WEEK OF SEP. 5, 2020 
        # To work offline, uncomment the next two lines below (lines 11 and 12) and comment above code + BASE_PATH (lines 3 and 7)
        # html_backup = File.read('/Users/Alexander/Documents/Coding/Flatiron School/3_Projects/billboard_hot_100_songs/lib/billboard_hot_100_songs/backup_website/billboard_hot_100_songs.html')
        # page_data = Nokogiri::HTML(html_backup)       
        
        page_data.css("li.chart-list__element").map do |element|
            song = {}
            song[:name] = element.css("span.chart-element__information__song").text
            song[:artist] = element.css("span.chart-element__information__artist").text
            song[:rank_this_week] = element.css("span.chart-element__rank__number").text
            song[:delta] = element.css("span.chart-element__information__delta__text.text--default").text
            song[:rank_last_week] = element.css("span.chart-element__information__delta__text.text--last").text.gsub(" Last Week","")
            song[:peak_rank] = element.css("span.chart-element__information__delta__text.text--peak").text.gsub(" Peak Rank","")
            song[:duration] = element.css("span.chart-element__information__delta__text.text--week").text.gsub(" Weeks on Chart","")
            song
        end
    end
end

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billboard_hot_100_songs-0.1.0	lib/billboard_hot_100_songs/scraper.rb