Suggestion

The site is located here: http://de.yahoo.com/

Actually it works the same as http://yahoo.com/, but since the german site doesn't offer an api, it would be really cool if you could take a look at it.

You mean these:

http://skitch.com/peterszinek/ht...

?

exactly :-)

Scrubyt doesn't support javascript, the drop down menu with urls start only by an javascript input, it ask the server and return html, test it with firebug and webdeveloper inspecting objects with javascript enabled/disabled, at now it will work only with firewatir.

I know, that's why I didn't got it working. But I thought that Firewatir is included in the new scrubyt and therefore it would be able to scrape the suggestions.

Or am I wrong? :-)

If you activate the firewatir agent, it will work!

Yeah, it should (at least that's the idea :-)) however, currently it's throwing

textfield name and //input["@id=p"] is read only. (Watir::Exception::ObjectReadOnlyException)

WTF?! how can it be read only??!? Need to dig around a bit more and/or ask the Watir guys.

Ok, I found the problem... will need to push out one more release ;-)

Fantastic. Looking forward to it.

OK, done - now I just need to find some time to crank the release out - should happen today, or in the worst case tomorrow!

can you drop me a line as soon as you release it?

Sure, will do!

cool, thanks.

but could it be possible that the gem still isn't mirrored at rubyforge?

hmmm.... wtf it seems it's not yet there. it should be 0.4.1 but for me it installs just 0.4.06... checking it out.

i now installed it manually and tried to get it working with de.yahoo.com. but i don't even get the script to fill out the textfield.

yahoo_data = Scrubyt::Extractor.define :agent => :firefox do
  fetch 'http://de.yahoo.com/' 
  fill_textfield_and_wait 'p', 'ruby', 5
end

Running out for lunch now, but will check it out after I am back!

Does it work for you with yahoo.com (without the de?)

I checked it with yahoo.com He doesn't seem to fill in the textfield their too.