Wednesday, 15 May 2013

How to use Ruby to download multiple files from a webpage? -


I want to download all the linked Excel files (.xls) on the page.

Is there a Ruby gem which can do this for me? If not, how would I go about writing a Ruby script, which will download each Excel files in a designated folder?

spreadsheets

in XLS format as a single zip file To download all the historical tables, click here (788 KB)

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