Parser for the BPA Competitive Event List

bpa-competetive_event-list.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

def parse_event_number_and_name(text)
  number, name = $1, $2 if text =~ /\(([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\)\s(.*):/
end

doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://www.bpa.org/compete/eventlist'))

maincontent = doc.xpath('id("maincontent")')
siblings_array = maincontent.xpath('//br/following-sibling::*|//br/preceding-sibling::*').to_a

siblings_array.each do |sibling|
  number, name = parse_event_number_and_name(sibling.content)
  puts "[#{number}] #{name}" if number && name
end