From: Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@...>
Date: 2010-07-02T01:16:20+09:00
Subject: Re: AUDIO FILE DOWNLOAD IN RUBY

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On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM, kevid <alumsimportant@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I am trying to download it and save it locally.  the file is in mp3
> format.
>
> What your current code would do is print the contents of the mp3 file to
the console.  Since it's all binary data, this is not very useful.

What you need to do is open a file and write the download contents to it.
 One way to do this is:

require 'net/http'
url = "http://stream.esvmedia.org/mp3-play/hw/19023001-19023006.mp3"
res = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
File.open('output.mp3','w') do |f|
  f.write(res.body)
end


For more information on writing to files, see
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html

-Jonathan Nielsen

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