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		programminggeek on Jan 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web scraping with Ruby Why not just use like watir or selenium?

bradleyland on Jan 19, 2015 [–]

Because then you're running an entire browser when all you really need is an HTTP library and a parser.

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