Hpricot script to extract sunrise and sunset dates from http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html

scrape_it.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'open-uri'
require 'hpricot'

doc = Hpricot(open("http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=136&month=12&year=2010&obj=sun&afl=-11&day=1"))

sunrise_rows = (doc/"table.spad tr")

sunrise_rows.each do |x|
  puts  "Date: #{(x/"td:eq(0)").text}"
  puts  "Sunrise: #{(x/"td:eq(1)").text}"
  puts  "Sunset: #{(x/"td:eq(2)").text}"

end