What is Data scraping? Website/Data Scraping is a technique to operating large amounts of data from websites whereby the data is extracted and displayed in own sites or it can be stored to a File/Database. Data scraping is basically used where the websites does not provides API. Some Applications do not provide API to collect records. For the same , Data Scraping technique is used. The data can be scraped using Nokogiri Gem. The steps are required: Add the gem “gem ‘nokogiri’, ‘~> 1.8’, ‘>= 1.8.1'” . Then run the bundle install Add the “require ‘nokogiri'” , “require ‘open-uri'” line where you will write the code for the scraping. The controller of the page will look like below: The view of the code of view page will look like : The result in our application will look like: Mechanize Gem in rails The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize automatically stor...