require 'hpricot' html = <<END_OF_HTML <html> <head> <title>This is the page title</title> </head> <body> <h1>Big heading!</h1> <p>A paragraph of text.</p> <ul><li>Item 1 in a list</li><li>Item 2</li><li class="highlighted">Item 3</li></ul> </body> </html> END_OF_HTML doc = Hpricot(html) puts doc.search("h1").first.inner_html
