Parsing HTML with hpricot

Abstract

The hpricot gem provides a fast Ruby HTML parser; it’s partially implemented in C to increase performance. hpricot has two big advantages: it’s easy to use and it’s fast. It combines an elegant interface with the ability to search by CSS selectors, element IDs, tag types, and so forth. At the same time, it’s also high-performance, so you can process even fairly large HTML documents quickly.