collect Golf's World Rankings on your own with new Ruby module!

...Official Golf World Ranking, OGWR...
wrote some Ruby code in a Module that grabs the official golf world rankings...
use the data as you wish in your own application...
released as open source...
 
code: http://github.com/holtonma/ogwr/tree/master/ogwr_scraper.rb
test: http://github.com/holtonma/ogwr/tree/master/test_ogwr_scraper.rb
 
enables anyone to take the active OGWR data and do with it what you wish
(E.g. store to a database each week, hold in your database to related to players on your website, etc).

...it's decent for a start, planning on continuing to make it more versatile and useful...

You can find the code on GitHub at the links above.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
	# created by Mark Holton (holtonma@gmail.com)
	# copy as much as you want to
	# 10-29-2008
	# purpose: scrape the official world golf ranking, and present it in a more
	# usable form (Array of ostruct's)
	# using Hpricot, open-uri
	require 'rubygems'
	require 'hpricot'
	require 'open-uri'
	require 'ostruct'
	module OGWR
	VERSION = '0.1.0'
	class PageFetcher
	def fetch(ogwr_url, page_num)
	#page_num indicates range of 50n: page 1 >> 1-50, page 2 >> 51-100, page 3 >> 101-150...
	data = Hpricot(open(ogwr_url)).search("table:nth-child(5)")
	players = [] #init
	start_rank = -1 + 50*(page_num-1) #(there are 2 empty trs to start the world ranking) #instead of a counter, I should extract this from page
	(data/"td:nth-child(2)").each do |x|
	playa = OpenStruct.new
	playa.fname = x.search("a").inner_html.split(" ")[0]
	playa.lname = x.search("a").inner_html.split(" ")[1]
	playa.rank = start_rank
	puts "#{playa.fname} #{playa.lname} #{playa.rank}"
	players << playa
	start_rank += 1
	end
	#clean this line up:
	players.pop; players.reverse!; players.pop; players.pop; players.reverse! #remove one extra row at end, 2 extra at beginning
	players
	end
	end
	end

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