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Jamie Wilkinson http://tramchase.com

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Scrape MySpace friend thumbnails

// fetch all img's from a myspace profile's .friendSpace div
// more @ http://tramchase.com/scrape-myspace-youtube-torrents-for-fun-and-profit

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
agent.get("http://myspace.com/graffitiresearchlab")
links = agent.page.search('.friendSpace img') # found w/ firebug
FileUtils.mkdir_p 'myspace-images' # make the images dir
links.each_with_index { |link, index| 
  url = link['src']
  puts "Saving thumbnail #{url}"
  agent.get(url).save_as("myspace-images/top_friend#{index}_#{File.basename url}")
}
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