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

The appropriate way to fetch the content of a website is through the NET::HTTP module in Ruby:

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = "http://hiscore.runescape.com/index_lite.ws?player=zezima"
r = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url).host, URI.parse(url).path)

File.open() does not support URIs.

Best wishes,
Fabian

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

Please use open-uri, its support both uri and local files

require 'open-uri'
contents  = open('http://www.google.com') {|f| f.read }