Getting webpage content with Ruby — I'm having troubles

Question

I want to get the content off this* page. Everything I\'ve looked up gives the solution of parsing CSS elements; but, that page has none.

Here\'s the only code that

Answer 1

You really want to use open() provided by the Kernel class which can read from URIs you just need to require the OpenURI library first:

require 'open-uri'

Used like so:

require 'open-uri'
file = open('http://hiscore.runescape.com/index_lite.ws?player=zezima')
contents = file.read
puts contents

This related SO thread covers the same question:

Open an IO stream from a local file or url