Get all the Startup Quotes with this simple ruby script

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

url_base = "http://startupquote.com/page/"
images_path = File.expand_path(ARGV[0] || "~/Pictures/quotes")

if !File.exists?(images_path)
  puts "Error, Image directory doesn't exist."
  puts "Usage: ruby #{$0} image_directory_path"
  exit
end

page = 1
go = true

while(go)
  document = Nokogiri::HTML(open("#{url_base}#{page.to_s}"))

  # No more quotes?
  go = false and break if (images = document.search("//div[@class='photoPost']").search("img")) == []
  
  for image in images
    src = image.attributes["src"]
    name = src.content.split("/").last
    file_path = "#{images_path}/#{name}"
  
    unless File.exists?(file_path)
      File.open(file_path, 'w') do |output|
        # Download image
        open(src) do |input|
          output << input.read
        end
      end
      puts image.attributes["alt"].content.gsub("\n", " ")
    else
      # I have all the quotes
      go = false and break
    end    
  end
      
  page += 1
  sleep 2
end