Simple Discogs Ruby API Client

discogs_api_example.rb

require 'zlib'
require 'open-uri'

url = "http://www.discogs.com/release/123?f=xml&api_key=111"
headers = {'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip', 'User-Agent' => 'MyDiscogsClient/1.0 +http://mydiscogsclient.org'}

begin
    response = open(url, headers)
    begin
        data = Zlib::GzipReader.new(response)
    rescue Zlib::GzipFile::Error
        response.seek(0)
        data = response.read
    end
rescue OpenURI::HTTPError => e
    data = e.io.read
end

puts data