Parse Faraday Response body as Nokogiri Object

Question

I have considered switching from Mechanize to Faraday, since I am making a lot of requests and it seems to be a lot quicker. What I couldn't find out, however, is if it is possible to parse the response body as an Nokogiri Object. The Mechanize way to do so is as follows:

Mechanize.new.get(url).parser

How can that be achieved using Faraday instead of Mechanize?

did you tried open-uri? first of all `require 'nokogiri'` and `require 'open-uri'`. And then `noko_obj = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url)) ` — rony36, Jan 30 '14 at 07:11
It's not necessary to use `require 'nokogiri'`. Mechanize does it automatically, since it uses Nokogiri internally. — the Tin Man, Feb 12 '14 at 05:17

Severin · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-12T07:58:35.267

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The same result can be achieved by doing:

site = Faraday.new.get('http://www.mysite.com').body
nokogiri_object = Nokogiri::HTML(site)

edited Feb 12 '14 at 07:58

answered Jan 30 '14 at 12:35

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"Since this only looks at the sites body it theoretically be faster." Huh? Faster compared to what? – the Tin Man Feb 12 '14 at 05:28

Parse Faraday Response body as Nokogiri Object

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