GUIDE.txt in mechanize-0.8.5 vs GUIDE.txt in mechanize-0.9.0
- old
+ new
@@ -113,12 +113,10 @@
Mechanize also makes file uploads easy! Just find the file upload field, and
tell it what file name you want to upload:
form.file_uploads.first.file_name = "somefile.jpg"
== Scraping Data
-Mechanize uses hpricot[http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/] to parse
+Mechanize uses nokogiri[http://nokogiri.rubyforge.org/] to parse
html. What does this mean for you? You can treat a mechanize page like
-an hpricot object. After you have used Mechanize to navigate to the page
-that you need to scrape, then scrape it using hpricot methods:
+an nokogiri object. After you have used Mechanize to navigate to the page
+that you need to scrape, then scrape it using nokogiri methods:
agent.get('http://someurl.com/').search(".//p[@class='posted']")
-For more information on this powerful scraper, take a look at
-HpricotBasics[http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/HpricotBasics]