download-list.rb

require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
require 'webmock'
require 'vcr'

VCR.config do |c|
  c.cassette_library_dir = 'vcr_cassettes'
  c.stub_with :webmock
end

VCR.use_cassette("tvlist") do
  puts "Loading list..."
  xml = Nokogiri::HTML(open("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_programs_by_name"))

  puts "Writing to file..."
  File.open("series", "wb+") do |file|
    xml.css("i a").each do |link|
      file << link.content + "\n"
    end
  end

  puts "Finished"
end