Craiglist Scrubber

craigs_list.rb

require "httparty"
require 'nokogiri'

homepage_url = "https://miami.craigslist.org/"

response1 = HTTParty.get homepage_url
home_page = Nokogiri::HTML(response1.body)
cats = []
url_tag = []
jobs = []
joblinks = []

home_page.css('ul#jjj0 li').each do |job_cat|
  cats << job_cat
end

puts "Choose one to search:"
puts "*" * 20

n=1
cats.each do |cat|
  puts ("#{n}: " + cat.content)
  n += 1
end

cat_select = (gets.chomp!.to_i - 1)

tag = cats[cat_select].children[0][:class]

if cat_select != 32
  jobs_url = "https://miami.craigslist.org/search/#{tag}"
else
  jobs_url = "https://miami.craigslist.org/search/jjj?employment_type=2"
end

jobs_response = HTTParty.get jobs_url
job_page = Nokogiri::HTML(jobs_response.body)

# we only want jobs no other links
job_page.css('a.hdrlnk').each do |element|
  jobs << element
end

# deleted a bunch of extra code

jobs.each do |j|
  puts j.content
  # ternary works like this: $statement ? something if $statement is true : something if $statement is false
  puts (j[:href].include? "craigslist.org" ? "http:#{j[:href]}" : "https://miami.craigslist.org#{j[:href]}")
  puts 
  puts
end