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joseramonc/download_octodex.rb

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Ruby script to download all octocats images from the octodex. octodex.github.com
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download_octodex.rb
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
BASE_URL = 'https://octodex.github.com'
DESTINATION_FOLDER = "/Users/joseramonc/src/images/octodex"
octodex = Nokogiri::HTML open BASE_URL
octodex.css('.preview-image').each do |preview|
absolute_path = preview.css('img')[0]['data-src']
file_name = absolute_path.split('/').last
IO.copy_stream(open("#{BASE_URL}#{absolute_path}"), "#{DESTINATION_FOLDER}/#{file_name}")
end
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