grabs emoji codes and filenames out of the emoji-cheat-sheet.com page and dumps them into a string designed to be pasted into the Yammer emoticon processing stuff

scraper.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# USAGE: ./scraper.rb emoji-cheat-sheet.com/public/index.html | pbcopy
# need to check out emoji-cheat-sheet from github
# ==> https://github.com/arvida/emoji-cheat-sheet.com

filename = ARGV[0]

file = File.new(filename, "r")

while (line = file.gets)
  # example line:
  # <li><div><img src="graphics/emojis/bowtie.png"> :<span class="name">bowtie</span>:</div></li>
  match = line.match(/emojis\/(.*\.png).*name">(.*?)</)
  unless match.nil?
    # example output designed to be pasted into emoticon.js eg. 
    # , ['cat.gif', 'Cat face', ['(@)']]
    path = match[1]
    name = match[2].sub(/_/, " ").split.each {|s| s.capitalize!}.join(" ")
    key = ":" + match[2] + ":"
    print ", ['" + path + "', '" + name + "', ['" + key + "']]\n" 

  end
end
file.close