As stupid as this sounds from the original author after countless hours of scRUBYt! usage and development, I still had to occasionally open some older scrapers to get the exact logger, exporter, clicklinkand_wait etc. syntax. Even though I know 95% of the possible commands, I thought it’d be great to speed up the typing time - a typical scRUBYt! extractor has tons of boilerplate code.

So I decided to create a TextMate bundle and host it on github. It’s pretty rudimentary right now, consisting of about two dozens of snippets, but hey, it’s a start.

I bet scgoog->TAB will become a big favorite right away (spits the classical google extractor example into your editor) - but there are other usable snippets included as well. With their help it’s literally possible to create a scraper in a few seconds.

If you have further ideas, would like to contribute etc. please drop me a mail (scrubyt -nice try spambot! NOT.- at scrubyt dot org).

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