Question

I’m trying to figure out how to extract the information on a file using nokogiri.

The information generated isn’t an xml or html file.. so not sure how to get this!

def get_summoner_account
    url = "http://elophant.com/api/v1/euw/getSummonerByName?summonerName=Heggom&key=0r57xO0H2A7ukQi6gUbG "
    doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))

    name = doc.xpath("name").collect(&:text)
    acctID = doc.xpath("acctID").collect(&:text)
    summonerId = doc.xpath("summonerId").collect(&:text)

    puts accID
    puts name
    puts summonerID

end

Answer 1

The data at the link you provided is in JSON format, not XML, so Nokogiri is not appropriate.

To get the data you want, you can just use Ruby’s Net::HTTP to get the data and JSON to parse it:

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'json'

def get_summoner_account
  uri = URI("http://elophant.com/api/v1/euw/getSummonerByName?summonerName=Heggom&key=0r57xO0H2A7ukQi6gUbG")

  resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
  hash = JSON(resp.body)

  name = hash['name']
  acctId = hash['acctId']
  summonerId = hash['summonerId']

  ...

end