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December 9, 2013 17:16
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4-line Ruby script that uses open-uri to fetch the contents of a URL & displays it in the console. This is the foundation for all web requests, whether to scrape a page, request a JSON response, and more.
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# http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/OpenURI.html | |
require 'open-uri' | |
# Go fetch the contents of a URL & store them as a String | |
response = open('http://www.example.com').read | |
# "Pretty prints" the result to look like a web page instead of one long string of HTML | |
URI.parse(response).class | |
# Print the contents of the website to the console | |
puts "\n\n#{response.inspect}\n\n" |
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