From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T04:48:04+09:00
Subject: Re: reading website

On 8/17/06, fabsy <fabbyfabs@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey!
> I have been going through some basic IO stuff and want to get into
> something more "advanced".
> I would like to make a script who asks for a website and takes the
> information (the text) on the website and put it into a textfile..
>
> So now im wondering.. how do I tell the script to download/read
> text/content from a website.. How do I do it? ( of course i do not want
> anyone to actually write this script for me, i want to write it myself
> but im a newbie and don't know which libs and etc to read in)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>

Just

require "open-uri"

open(url) do |io|
  # the ensues
end