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Reputation: 4025

Swift get content of html from url

let myURLString = "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/see"

    if let myURL = NSURL(string: myURLString) { 


      let myHTMLString = String(contentsOfURL: myURL, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
      print("HTML : \(myHTMLString)")

    }

And I got printed:

HTML : (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/see, Unicode (UTF-8))

But instead I need html content. What I am doing wrong?

Update:
As a source for the code I used: How To Get HTML source from URL with Swift

Please, read my question with more attention, as the result I got text of link, but instead I need text of html page

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10175

Answers (3)

Luca Angeletti
Luca Angeletti

Reputation: 59496

To retrieve the HTML of the webpage referenced by a url you just need to

let myURLString = "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/see"

if let
    url = NSURL(string: myURLString),
    html = try? String(contentsOfURL: url)  {
    print(html)
}

I tested this code in my Playground and it is retrieving the full HTML of the web page.

Upvotes: 1

spin_eight
spin_eight

Reputation: 4025

Solution: instead of String, use NSString

let myURLString = "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/see"


    if let myURL = NSURL(string: myURLString) {
      do {
        let myHTMLString = try NSString(contentsOf: myURL as URL, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue)
        print("html \(myHTMLString)")
      } catch {
        print(error)
      }
    }

Upvotes: 0

Mr. Xcoder
Mr. Xcoder

Reputation: 4795

Try this:

let myURLString = "http://google.com"
guard let myURL = NSURL(string: myURLString) else {
    print("Error: \(myURLString) doesn't seem to be a valid URL")
    return
}

do {
    let myHTMLString = try String(contentsOfURL: myURL)
    print("HTML : \(myHTMLString)")
} catch let error as NSError {
    print("Error: \(error)")
}

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 3

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