On Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 1:38:34 PM UTC-5, Walter Lee Davis wrote: > > > > On Dec 26, 2018, at 5:12 PM, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, December 26, 2018 at 4:41:53 AM UTC-5, Colin Law wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 at 20:19, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > yes, there's scripts running and when i click response i see the data > i'm looking for The script names are https urls ending in .do? with a lot > of query string data, so what should I do? > > > > Don't worry about scripts for the moment, look for urls that provide > > data, probably xml or json. Surely you have used this yourself in > > your rails apps using AJAX. > > > > Colin > > > > Trying now to use Capybara::DSL but when I run visit <'url'> from > within rails console rails complains no such route > > You are missing the entire point of what Colin is telling you. From what > you describe, you are trying to do the following: > > 1. Download the JS from a data source. > 2. Reconstruct the DOM using a JS driver like Chrome or PhantomJS. > 3. Parse the DOM with Nokogiri or similar > 4. Use the data you gather > > Colin is recommending that you download the JS and parse it directly for > the data you require. This will not require a driver of any kind, you are > simply reading the data as JSON, which is a valid interchange format that > Ruby can read directly using the standard library. > Walter >
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