Urlgrabber in Ruby

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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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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