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Scraping the address of "Apple Green" from openrice.com
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apple_green_address.rb
#
# loading the mechanize library for scraping
# install it if you haven't done it:
# sudo gem install mechanize
#
require 'mechanize'
agent = Mechanize.new
page = agent.get("http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=32108")
#
# use the css selector to identify the address HTML tag element
# specify [2] because the address stays in the third td tag element
#
address_element = page.search("table.addetail tbody tr td div table tbody tr td")[2]
puts address_element.text
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