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What separates this from Nokogiri? (Don't take that as critical, more working code out in the world is better. Just wondering, as I use Nokogiri heavily for our
by Legion 13y ago
What separates this from Nokogiri? (Don't take that as critical, more working code out in the world is better. Just wondering, as I use Nokogiri heavily for our company chat-bot, and couldn't tell the answer at a quick glance.)
- htp 13y agoReposting a comment by the author from the article: > Upton depends on Nokogiri, which is basically the BeautifulSoup port for Ruby. > If you just used vanilla Nokogiri, you'd be responsible for writing code to fetch, save (maybe), debug and sew together all the pieces of your web scraper. Upton does a lot of that work for you, so you can skip the boilerplate.