The following example shows you how to use Hpricot to parse HTML

# $Id$
#
# /home/madann/learn/ruby/ht.rb
#
 
require 'net/http'
require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
 
HOST="www.estately.com"
http = Net::HTTP.new(HOST,80)
homepage = http.get('/', nil)
doc = Hpricot(homepage.body)
# p doc.class
# p doc.methods.sort
inner = Hpricot(doc.at("body").to_html)
divs = inner.search("div")
p divs

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