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How to access a webpage and get its content

Kelvin Firmino asked in Rails

Hi, good afternoon.

Chirs, I would like to access a website and get its content from its page to create a database with this information.

It is about a game so, it is a common information that I would like to do website about in a better way. So, instead of copy by hand the content, I would like to do this in a more efeccienty way, accessing its multiple pages and catch the data that I need.

Do you know a way that I can do that?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Hey Kelvin,

I've never done it, but the keyword you're looking for is "web scraping"

Check out: https://www.google.com/search?q=web+scraping

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Have a look at the Nokogiri gem

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