From: Mully <david.mullet@...>
Date: 2006-05-06T10:39:31+09:00
Subject: Re: urlgrabber in Ruby

Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for something like the Python-esque URLGrabber package, but 
> in
> Ruby. Any tip?
> 
> * urlgrabber is a pure python package that drastically simplifies the 
> fetching
> of files. It is designed to be used in programs that need common (but 
> not
> necessarily simple) url-fetching features. It is extremely simple to 
> drop
> into an existing program and provides a clean interface to
> protocol-independant file-access. Best of all, urlgrabber takes care of 
> all
> those pesky file-fetching details, and lets you focus on whatever it is 
> that
> your program is written to do!
> http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> - --
> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> http://www.elpauer.org
> (Due to the amount of work, I usually need 10 days to answer)
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"open-uri" might serve your purposes. It allows you to work with
http/ftp resources as you would a normal file object:

  open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/") {|f|
    f.each_line {|line| p line}
  }

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/index.html

Mully

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