So you need to pull a list of diseases?
So you need to pull a list of diseases from the CDC website? Oh, you don’t… well I did.
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| require 'rest-client' | |
| require 'nokogiri' | |
| master = Set.new | |
| for letter in 'a'..'z' | |
| page = RestClient.get("http://www.cdc.gov/DiseasesConditions/az/#{letter}.html") | |
| html = Nokogiri::HTML(page) | |
| diseases = html.css('.span16')[0].css('li') | |
| for disease in diseases | |
| parsed = disease.text.split(/[\[\]\(\)]|[—-] see|see also/).collect {|text| text.strip}.reject { |text| text.empty? } | |
| for parse in parsed | |
| master.add parse | |
| end | |
| end | |
| end | |
| for item in master | |
| puts item | |
| end |