Tutorials
From Scrubyt
Tutorials scRUBYt has a growing community, that includes users with multiple different skill sets. To cater to such a community, scRUBYt has tutorials that are perfect for the beginner, the experienced and the advanced user. Each tutorial will have a link to the corresponding example extractor as well to ease in your learning. If you don't find something that suits your needs, please request an example tutorial or create one yourself to share with the rest of the community. Hopefully you will find that scRUBYt is extremely powerful, yet extremely easy to learn. For now, the tutorials that are currently up on scrubyt.org will be linked to.
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[edit] Official Tutorials
All of these tutorials have been created by the official development team. It's best to start with these and work your way through before branching off on to other user created tutorials.
[edit] Beginner
- Your First Extractor
- Scrapin' google in no sec - an extended beginner tutorial
- Example Specification - Known Issues & Pitfalls
- Navigating to the page of interest
- Playing around with the output
[edit] Experienced
- Using Different Types of Examples
- Introduction to Constraints
- When one example is not enough
- Crawling to the next pages
[edit] Advanced
- Selecting results on specific indices
- Misc Functionality
- Putting it all together: barnesandnoble.com
- When trouble strikes: reddit.com
- Ranking Ruby/Rails Blogs with scRUBYt! Using Alexa and Technorati
[edit] User Created Tutorials
All of these tutorials have been created by different users of scRUBYt. They are not officially supported. However you will most likely be able to find help with them in the forums.
[edit] Logging in
These pages below may also have other site specific tutorials located on them.
[edit] Table Scraping
- Basic table
- Complex Table
[edit] Searching
[edit] Crawling
If there are any questions, please visit us in the forums.
