RFetch can be used to fetch a URL and includes methods that provide quick access to the title, description, and other meta information from the content returned.
The primary use case is automatically generating a title and preview when storing a URL within an application.
RFetch uses Faraday to make the actual requests.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'rfetch'And then execute:
$ bundle install
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install rfetch
irb(main):012:0> result = RFetch.get("https://example.com/")
=> #<RFetch::Result url="https://example.com/" status_code=200 content_type="text/html; chars...
irb(main):013:0> page = result.to_page
=> #<RFetch::Page:0x00007fce5205ea10 @content="<!doctype html>\n<html>\n<head>\n <title>Ex...
irb(main):014:0> page.title
=> "Example Domain"
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mikej/rfetch.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.