Hi All
I'm trying to build an application which requires to scrap information
from a webpage. On trying to perform the action, I get an error while
trying to convert the html data to JSON. Has anyone experienced this
before and if so can you please tell me how to solve this problem ?
Please see below for code snippet and error log.
Thanks in advance
Anush
require 'net/http'
require 'open-uri'
require 'uri'
require 'json'
require 'pp'
class Merchant < ActiveRecord::Base
def self.grab_original_content
## EXAMPLE USING ZED451.COM
uri = URI("http://www.zed451.com";)
response = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
@hash = JSON(response.body)
puts "#{@hash}"
end
end
I call the above method in my controller and send @hash to view.
In my browser I see the below error:
JSON::ParserError in Original contentController#index
706: unexpected token at '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
And the rest of the page is printed without error in html format.
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