Biodegradable Geek

Scraping Google Trends with Mechanize and Hpricot

This is a small Ruby script that fetches the 100 trends of the day for a specific date. If multiple dates are searched, one can find out how many times a keyword occurred between two dates, or just find out what keywords are constantly appearing on the top 100 list. The script is incomplete and [...]

AnimeCrazy Scraper Example Using Hpricot & Mechanize

This is a little (as of now incomplete) scraper I wrote to grab all the anime video code off of AnimeCrazy (dot) net. This site doesn’t host any videos on its own server, but just embeds ones that have been uploaded to other sites (Megavideo, YouTube, Vimeo, etc). I don’t know who the original uploaders [...]