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Scraping Web Pages with Ruby Discussion

I haven't seen the next episodes yet but up until this point I'm wondering if a Scraper class is really a recommended way to do this? It seems like you are just replacing the Nokogiri API with your own API without a clear benefit. Are added layers of abstraction helpful later on? Maybe for testing? Or by reducing the API surface area maybe?

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Keep watching. Nokogiri is just an HTML parser, but you need to write code to interact with it, which is why we create the Scraper class.

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