How to get page description with ruby mechanize?

Question

How do I get page descriptions with Mechanize?

The Pismo gem has this functionality, but it's worse than the Mechanize gem. Mechanize finds image tags, for example.

I didn't find in the Mechanize documentation how to get the description.

Does anyone know a better plugin or how I can do that?

Sorry, what do you mean by page description? Where can I find this info on source of a page? Can you post an example? — sunnyrjuneja, Jan 09 '13 at 19:32
Maybe the meta http://embed.ly/docs/explore/oembed?url=www.google.com — Luccas, Jan 09 '13 at 19:38

Tyson · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-14T23:11:40.443

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Try this:

node = page.at("head meta[name='description']")
description = node["content"]

(node is an Nokogiri::XML::Node.)

edited Jan 14 '13 at 23:11

answered Jan 09 '13 at 19:38

Tyson

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Use `page.at("head meta[name='description']")` instead of `page.search("head meta[name='description']")[0]`. – the Tin Man Jan 09 '13 at 19:47

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