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user1951270
user1951270

Reputation: 31

MtGox price ticker through Ruby

This should be simple, given the public nature of the data, but for some reason my Ruby script is timing out on making the request.

The URL is http://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCGBP/ticker - works fine in browsers, and returns the expected JSON.

require 'net/https'
require 'uri'
uri = URI.parse('https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCGBP/ticker')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true if uri.scheme == 'https'
resp, response = http.post(uri.request_uri, nil)

This, however, returns the Timeout::Error: execution expired exception (every time) from the same box. I'm probably missing something really obvious; can anyone help?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 391

Answers (1)

MC2DX
MC2DX

Reputation: 572

I tried your code in my environment and everything was ok. Can you write something more about this error, in which line it happened etc. ? And are you sure to use POST verb (RESTful) ? What do you want to do ? I modified your code:

    require 'net/https'
    require 'uri'
    uri = URI.parse('https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCGBP/ticker')
    http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
    http.use_ssl = true if uri.scheme == 'https'
    resp = http.get(uri.request_uri)
    puts resp.body

I use GET verb and I got JSON.

Upvotes: 3

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