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XKCD for iPad
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| #!/bin/env ruby | |
| require 'rubygems' | |
| require 'open-uri' | |
| require 'nokogiri' | |
| doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://xkcd.com/').read) | |
| puts %{Content-type: text/html | |
| <html><head><title>XKCD for iPad</title> | |
| <style type="text/css">BODY { font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-align: center} | |
| .quip { font-style: italic }</style></head><body> | |
| #{doc.css("h1")} | |
| <p>#{doc.css("img").detect { |x| x.attr('src') =~ /comics/ }}</p> | |
| <p class="quip">#{(doc.css("img").detect { |x| x.attr('src') =~ /comics/ }).to_s[/title=\"(.*?)\"/, 1]}</p> | |
| </body></html>} | |
| # Totally too much in a hurry to bother figuring out the correct XPath expressions for the above shite ;-) | |
| # But feel free to give it a go! |
Cool, didn't know about the attribute thing.
Also, /bin/env is fine on most Linux, which is where I did it. But, yeah, on OS X it doesn't work.. (but WTF deploys to OS X anyway..) :-)
People with headless mac servers sat on their office windowsill. cough
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Few points I noticed in reading it initially ;)
#!/usr/bin/env rubycss()already, just add more css selectors to make it specific!Element#[]in Nokogiri -doc.css("img")[:title]