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Adam S.
Adam S.

Reputation: 315

Sending HTTP Requests in Swift

I have tried all the methods I came across on Google but none work. So my question is how would I get the contents of a web page using Swift? Like send an HTTP Request to a website and get the source of the page.

Any help or references welcome :D.

I have tried Alamofire and a bunch of other projects on Github as well.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 237

Answers (2)

Jesper
Jesper

Reputation: 7615

How about NSURLConnection and NSURLRequest?

sendAsynchronousRequest:... passes an NSData object into the completion handler alongside the NSURLRequest. sendSynchronousRequest:... (please avoid) returns an NSData object. Starting a request with start requires you to have hooked up a delegate to that request that implements NSURLConnectionDelegate where various methods are called as data comes in or the request fails. I'd recommend sendAsynchronousRequest:....

Upvotes: 0

Atomix
Atomix

Reputation: 13862

This code will get you the source code of a website in text form:

let source = NSString(contentsOfURL: NSURL(string: "http://www.google.com"), encoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding, error: nil)

Edit: If the website contains non-ascii characters, you can of course use 'NSUTF8StringEncoding'. If you don't want to block the main thread you should of course use an async_dispatch call.

Upvotes: 4

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