Module: YahooSports

Defined in:
lib/yahoo_sports.rb,
lib/yahoo_sports/mlb.rb,
lib/yahoo_sports/nba.rb,
lib/yahoo_sports/nfl.rb,
lib/yahoo_sports/nhl.rb,
lib/yahoo_sports/base.rb

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: Base, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.fetchurl(url) ⇒ Object

little helper method i wrote to retry the fetch a few times



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# File 'lib/yahoo_sports/base.rb', line 19

def self.fetchurl(url)
    #puts "FETCHING #{url}"
    return Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(URI.escape(url))).body    
end

.strip_tags(html) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/yahoo_sports/base.rb', line 24

def self.strip_tags(html)
		
    HTMLEntities.new.decode(
        html.gsub(/<.+?>/,'').
        gsub(/&nbsp;/,' ').
        gsub(/&amp;/,'&').
        gsub(/&quot;/,'"').
        gsub(/&lt;/,'<').
        gsub(/&gt;/,'>').
        gsub(/&ellip;/,'...').
        gsub(/&apos;/, "'").
        gsub(/<br *\/>/m, '')
    ).strip

end