Class: PlantScraper::Scraper

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/plant_info_scraper/scraper.rb

Constant Summary collapse

BASE_URL = 
"https://www.bhg.com/bin/plants/"

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.scrape_by_zip(zip) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/plant_info_scraper/scraper.rb', line 5

def self.scrape_by_zip(zip)
    doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(BASE_URL+"?zipZone=#{zip}")).css(".singleResult")
    doc.each { |plant| 
        #array to store attributes while scraping
        attributes = []
        name = plant.css(".plantInfo .name h5 a").text
        plant.css(".attributeSection .singleAttribute").each { |attribute| attributes << attribute.css(".value").text.delete("\n").strip.split.join(" ") }
        summary = plant.css(".description p").text.strip
        PlantScraper::Plant.new(name, attributes[0], attributes[1], attributes[2], attributes[3], summary )
    }        
end

.scrape_zip_with_attributes(zip, sun_entry, height_entry, plant_type_entry) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/plant_info_scraper/scraper.rb', line 17

def self.scrape_zip_with_attributes(zip, sun_entry, height_entry, plant_type_entry)
    attributes = "?zipZone=#{zip}&light=#{sun_entry}&height=#{height_entry}&type=#{plant_type_entry}"

    doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(BASE_URL+attributes)).css(".singleResult")
    doc.each { |plant| 
        #array to store attributes while scraping
        attributes = []
        name = plant.css(".plantInfo .name h5 a").text
        plant.css(".attributeSection .singleAttribute").each { |attribute| attributes << attribute.css(".value").text.delete("\n").strip.split.join(" ") }
        summary = plant.css(".description p").text.strip
        PlantScraper::Plant.new(name, attributes[0], attributes[1], attributes[2], attributes[3], summary )
    } 
end