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API for accessing full names from CNet ID's
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email_to_name.rb
require 'nokogiri'
cnet = ARGV[0]
raw = `curl -d "cnetid=#{cnet}&commit=Search" http://directory.uchicago.edu/`
doc = Nokogiri::HTML( raw )
name = doc.xpath('//td[@headers="fullname"]').text
puts name
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