Nokogiri Exclude HTML Class

Question

I'm trying to scrape the names of all the people who commented on a post in our Facebook group. I downloaded the file locally and am able to scrape the names of the people who commented plus the people who replied to those comments. I only want the original comments, not the replies... it seems like I have to exclude the UFIReplyList class but my code is still pulling all the names. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

require 'nokogiri'
require 'pry'

class Scraper
  @@all = []

  def get_page
    file = File.read('/Users/mark/Desktop/raffle.html')
    doc = Nokogiri::HTML(file)
    # binding.pry

    doc.css(".UFICommentContent").each do |post|
      # binding.pry
      author = post.css(".UFICommentActorName").css(":not(.UFIReplyList)").text

      @@all << author
    end

    puts @@all
  end
end

Scraper.new.get_page

Answer 1

Traverse ancestors for every .UFICommentActorName element, to reject those contained within a .UFIReplyList element.

@authors_nodes = doc.css(".UFICommentActorName").reject do |node|

  # extract all ancestor class names; 
  # beware of random whitespace and multiple classes per node
  class_names = node.ancestors.map{ |a| a.attributes['class'].value rescue nil }
  class_names = class_names.compact.map{ |names| names.split(' ') }
  class_names = class_names.flatten.map(&:strip)

  # reject if .UFIReplyList found
  class_names.include?('UFIReplyList')

end

@authors_nodes.map(&:text)