On 29 July 2018 at 03:43, fugee ohu <fugee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 10:43:37 AM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 28 July 2018 at 15:32, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 2:53:59 AM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote: >>>> >>>> On 28 July 2018 at 00:15, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> how do i webscrape aliexpress? i learned how to get a document object >>>>> class Nokogiri::HTML containing the full html but there's no tables only >>>>> ul >>>>> and li selectors and i'm having trouble with that >>>>> >>>> >>>> Give us an example of a page you are scraping and an element you can't >>>> find. >>>> >>>> Colin >>>> >>>> >>> Thanks Colin Made progress so now I have the <ul> list i want in an >>> object I named ul Not sure how I'm gonna proceed My goal is to import to >>> database tables It's a few related tables instead of just one products >>> table I don't think you still wanna see all that html do you? >>> >> >> If you are now seeing the data then no I don't want to see it. Your >> original problem is fixed. >> >> Colin >> >> > I could read the item description on the page in the browser but couldn't > find it searching the source I'm new to using the browser debugging console > I never had any reason to use it before So I couldn't find the description > I saw on the page in the source so I right clicked on the description and > selected inspect This is what I got: > <li class="property-item" id="product-prop-19204" data-attr="272" > data-title="Wireless" data-spm-anchor-id="2114. > 12010108.0.i4.7c48412aEPVyt2"> > <span class="propery-title">Cord Length (m):</span> > <span class="propery-des" > title="Wireless">Wireless</span> > </li> > What can I do with this? >
If you can see the description in the browser but not in the source then as a web developer I am sure you can think of at least a couple of ways that might happen. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLtFmOHPoPUh%2Bk8sGrmO19cUxAOxHuUixmfsRHG708bs9g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
