RubyfulSoup vs Mechanize - Suprising Performance...

Michael wrote:

If anyone is thinking about using either of these packages to screen-scrape then I think you should consider mechanize as an option over rubyfulsoup.

At a guess, I would use...

  wget to pull down the page   tidy to convert it to XHTML   XPath from libxml or similar high-end parser

All three engines are written in a C language, not our beloved Ruby.

And no Perl, either...