Find string in html page using mechanize

Question

I am trying to find if a given string, lets say "Hello" exists in a given page. So far I have the following:

agent = Mechanize.new

page = agent.get('http://www.google.de/')

and what should I do now? I have seen the search method, but it only accepts XPath/CSS expressions. I could try to use xpath to search, but is there a better way?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '13 at 10:07

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You can simply do for general text search:

page.body.include?('Hello')

However when searching a particular html node I recommend using css selectors like that:

page.parser.css('#my_container_element').text.include? 'Hello'

answered Jul 16 '13 at 10:07

Konstantin Rudy

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Thanks! I used the first method to do the simple search. – Elchin Jul 16 '13 at 11:28
That doesn't work with non ASCII search. page.body.encoding => # page.encoding => "UTF-8" – petRUShka Apr 11 '17 at 10:09

Find string in html page using mechanize

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