Examples in the readme about scala-scraper HOT 6 CLOSED

Hi @danyaljj! It is indeed a mistake in the examples. I don't think that line ever worked that way unless you imported JavaConversions, as doc >> elements(".item") has type Elements (which extends ArrayList<Element>).

I have just fixed the example in a822622.

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I see thanks.
BTW, if you give examples based on html snippets (rather than loading web pages), your examples would become much more illuminating for users who have no familiarity with your code's operators, etc.

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Hmm, ok, nice point. Do you think the comments accompanying the examples are not enough for users to understand what does the example do? If that's so, maybe I'll follow your suggestion and make the examples extract content from an inline HTML snippet.

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I don't have any specific examples. I noticed it when I was trying to understand your examples, and I found myself so much in need to seeing inline html snippets on which your operations are being applied.

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@danyaljj, I've recently found ScalaScraper and I found test specs to be quite useful source of examples. As a bonus it's easy for library maintainer to support them in working state.

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Hi all! In the latest version 2.0.0-RC1 I improved considerably the examples in the README. I'm now using tut, which actually compiles the examples in the Markdown files and writes the output of each command as if it was written in a REPL. I'm generating and checking the output of tut on Travis, so the examples are always kept up-to-date.

Additionally, all examples run against a sample HTML document provided in the repo, with which users can follow and understand better the results.

I took a long time, but I think I have finally addressed the difficulties you mentioned. I'll close this issue now, but feel free to open it again if you think more can be done. Thank you!

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