Dare to Dream?

Havn’t you just wished sometimes that all the html, script and style tags would just vanish from the html pages and all you get is pure text (for fun and profit). Well, here’s how I am managing it

require “open-uri”
require “hpricot”
require “sanitize”

html = open(”http://www.google.com”)
hp = Hpricot(html.read)
hp.search(”script”).remove
hp.search(”style”).remove
sanitize(hp.innerHTML, okTags=”")

And output?

“GoogleWeb Images News Orkut Groups Gmail more […]

This is probably the first time in my life when I was fuly aware of the quake - and am close enough to a laptop to blog about it. As per timeanddate.com, its 3:20 AM on 17th Sept 08 morning. Lets see, what do the newspapers report tomorrow

Saying hello to FF extensions