Breaking into Orkut with Mechanize
Alternate title: Using Mechanize to Scrape Orkut for Love Letters from Lonely Brazilian Beauties and Translating their Wantings to English
Shout outs to Natai for the request.
In this tutorial we will use mechanize to login to Orkut, pull our scrap messages, we will assume the message is written in Portuguese and translate the message to English with Google Translate.
FUN!
Scraping Gmail with Mechanize and Hpricot
This quick tutorial will show you how to use mechanize and hpricot to login to gmail and return a list of Unread emails.