Updates

Make sure your selinum-webdriver is at version 3 Which means for Firefox, Chrome, IE the following webdrivers respectively https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=3.0/ download the latest version and put it into your PATH

ruby-tapas-downloader

RubyTapas 2.0 download

Web scraper for gathering and arranging new rubytapas content

Steps

1. gem install 'watir'; gem install 'pry'
2. Copy the constants.rb.example file to constants.rb
3. Fill out constants.rb with your:
   • your username and password
   • optional: browser for the automated run
   • optional: use a number of the episode from which you want to start the download
   • optional: a different directory if you don't want the default RubyTapas
   • if your encounter certificate failure, download the ca-bundrle.crt from below and change the CA_FILE to eg.'lib/ca-bundle.crt'
4. In a terminal run ruby ruby-tapas-downloader

The downloader will put your episodes in this format

  /RubyTapas (as defined in your constants.rb file)
   /EPISODE_TITLE_FROM_RUBYTAPAS
     /episode.mp4       #video episode
     /full_page.html    #page html with all links
     /page_content.hrml #page_content div from page

Windows users

You may encounter the ruby SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError) This error is due to Ruby not being able to find the certification authority certificates (CA Certs) used to verify the authenticity of secured web servers. The solution is to download the this ca-bundle.crt and add it to lib/ directory.