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