class TodaysTopDesserts::Scraper

Public Class Methods

scrape_desserts() click to toggle source
# File lib/todays_top_desserts/scraper.rb, line 3
def self.scrape_desserts
  #returns an array of recipes with a name and url.
  page = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/79/desserts/"))

  page.css("article.list-recipes")[0].css("li")[0..9].collect do |dessert|
      {:name => dessert.css("img").attr("title").text,
        :url => dessert.css("a").attr("href").value
      }
  end

end
scrape_recipe(recipe_url) click to toggle source
# File lib/todays_top_desserts/scraper.rb, line 15
def self.scrape_recipe(recipe_url)
  #returns a hash of recipe attributes
  page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(recipe_url))

  recipe = {}

  recipe[:author] = page.css(".submitter__name").text.strip
  recipe[:description] = page.css(".submitter__description").text.strip
  recipe[:serving_size] = page.css("#metaRecipeServings").attr("content").value
  recipe[:prep_time] = page.css("time[itemprop='prepTime']").text.strip
  recipe[:cook_time] = page.css("time[itemprop='cookTime']").text.strip
  recipe[:ready_time] = page.css("time[itemprop='totalTime']").text.strip
  recipe[:calorie_count] = page.css(".calorie-count").text.strip

  recipe[:ingredients] = page.css("span[itemprop='ingredients']").collect {|ingredient| ingredient.text.strip}

  recipe[:instructions] = page.css("ol[itemprop='recipeInstructions'] span.recipe-directions__list--item").collect {|instruction| instruction.text.strip}

  recipe

end