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equivalent of curl for Ruby?

Answer 1

+16 A:

Curb and Curl::Multi provide cURL bindings for Ruby.

grawity 2009-05-30 12:28:22

Answer 2

+5 A:

Use open-uri and

  open("http://...", :http_basic_authentication=>[user, password])

accessing sites/pages/resources that require HTTP authentication.

apostlion 2009-05-30 12:52:30

Honestly, if I see that a library uses open-uri internally, I don't use that library. It's a deeply flawed library built on top of a deeply flawed URI parser. It's fine for usage in IRB and that's it.

Bob Aman 2009-06-01 19:30:16

@Sporkmonger: Well, that's what we have— what do you suggest, raw Net::HTTP?

apostlion 2009-06-02 05:18:51

Use Net::HTTP or Patron or Curb or any of the other libraries mentioned in the other answers. How this answer got voted up or accepted is beyond me.

Bob Aman 2009-10-25 03:22:04

Answer 3

+4 A:

If you like it less low-level, there is also Typhoeus, which is built on top of Curl::Multi.

Skade 2009-05-30 15:12:48

I wonder why you got thumbed down?

method 2009-05-31 05:53:05

Answer 4

+1 A:

There's also mechanize, very high-level web scraping client, uses Nokogiri for html parsing.

method 2009-05-31 05:55:33

Answer 5

+3 A:

You might also have a look at Rest-Client

QAD 2009-05-31 05:59:17

Answer 6

+3 A:

Curb-fu is a wrapper around Curb which in turn uses libcurl. What does Curb-fu offer over Curb? Just a lot of syntactic sugar - but that can be often what you need.

Peter Cooper 2009-05-31 16:14:44

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