Scraping a Web Page or Writing Automated System Tests

Using Ruby

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I have been asked so many times to develop a script that would scrape a specific Web page. It seems that it is a very useful, and needed, technique when one wants to get data from a Web page and that Web page does not offer any export functionality, nor an API for data to be fetched. Or, equally valid and useful when you want to write Quality Assurance or Test…