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    <p>I am trying to scrape a table website with mechanize. I want to scrape the second row.</p> <p>When I run :</p> <p><code>agent.page.search('table.ea').search('tr')[-2].search('td').map{ |n| n.text }</code></p> <p>I would expect it to scrape the whole row. But instead it only scrapes: ["2011-02-17", "0,00"]</p> <p>Why isn't it scraping all of the columns in the row, but just the first and the last column?</p> <p><strong>Xpath:</strong> /html/body/center/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]/table/tbody/tr[3]/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr[2]</p> <p><strong>CSS PATH:</strong> html body center table tbody tr td table tbody tr td table tbody tr td table.ea tbody tr td.total</p> <p>The page is similar to this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;table&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;table&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" class="ea"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Date&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;One&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Three&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Four&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Five&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Six&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Seven&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Eight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;2011-02-17&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;0,00&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;387&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;0,00&lt;/td&gt; &lt;!-- FOV --&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;0,00&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="total"&gt;Ialt&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="total" align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="total" align="right"&gt;40&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="total" align="right"&gt;0,46&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="total" align="right"&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="total" align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="total" align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="total" align="right"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="total" align="right"&gt;3.060&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="total" align="right"&gt;0,00&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="total" align="right"&gt;18,58&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/table&gt; </code></pre>
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