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Tobias.Braner

Ruby web scraping

Posted on 29th Januar, by Tobias.Braner in Ruby. 1 Comment

I want to share my recent experience with ruby web scraping and RSS.

Often I found myself checking the comments for my game iBox3D using http://www.appcomments.com. But the problem is that you can only display the comments by country and my app does so far only have comments in Germany, USA and UK. But the website does not show where you have comments or not. It was hard to say, if there were new comments or not. So I decided to write a small ruby script which should compile all comments and display them.

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