How do i web scrape aliexpress from rails (console) or app

[fugee ohu]

how do i webscrape aliexpress? i learned how to get a document object class Nokogiri::HTML containing the full html but there's no tables only ul and li selectors and i'm having trouble with that

[Colin Law]

On 28 July 2018 at 00:15, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote:

how do i webscrape aliexpress? i learned how to get a document object class Nokogiri::HTML containing the full html but there's no tables only ul and li selectors and i'm having trouble with that

Give us an example of a page you are scraping and an element you can't find.

Colin

[fugee ohu]

 https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20180728063558&SearchText=home+robot

[Colin Law]

On 28 July 2018 at 15:32, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 2:53:59 AM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote:

Thanks Colin Made progress so now I have the <ul> list i want in an object I named ul Not sure how I'm gonna proceed My goal is to import to database tables  It's a few related tables instead of just one products table I don't think you still wanna see all that html do you?

If you are now seeing the data then no I don't want to see it.  Your original problem is fixed.

Colin

[fugee ohu]

I could read the item description on the page in the browser but couldn't find it searching the source I'm new to using the browser debugging console I never had any reason to use it before So I couldn't find the description I saw on the page in the source so I right clicked on the description and selected inspect This is what I got: 

<li class="property-item" id="product-prop-19204" data-attr="272" data-title="Wireless" data-spm-anchor-id="2114.12010108.0.i4.7c48412aEPVyt2">

                        <span class="propery-title">Cord Length (m):</span>

                        <span class="propery-des" title="Wireless">Wireless</span>

                    </li>

What can I do with this?

[Colin Law]

If you can see the description in the browser but not in the source then as a web developer I am sure you can think of at least a couple of ways that might happen.

Colin