Nokogiri, open-uri, and Unicode Characters

Question

I\'m using Nokogiri and open-uri to grab the contents of the title tag on a webpage, but am having trouble with accented characters. What\'s the best way to deal with these

Answer 1

Tip: you could also use the Scrapifier gem to get metadata, as the page title, from URIs in a very simple way. The data are all encoded in UTF-8.

Check it out: https://github.com/tiagopog/scrapifier

Hope it's useful for you.