getting data from python script on webserver using swift

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I have a python script on my webserver which simply prints out 2 to 5 words, one under the other.

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What I need to do is the following:

open the url www.webserveraddress.com?variable1=variable2
get the words from each line and put them into an array

No need to display the webpage, I just need the words. Thats all.

Iv seen I can use things like Libxml2 and Hpple, but these are ObjC wrappers around other code. I'm not sure how Swift will cope with that.

I quite frankly have no idea where to start or even if I'm going about it the wrong or not :/

PS. I would post code but the python script is around 6500 lines :)

drewag · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-07 18:23:44Z

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The quickest way to get the contents of a URL as a string is to use the constructor on NSString:

var contents = NSString(contentsOfURL: NSURL(string: "http://example.com"), encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, error: nil)

Then you can separate the contents into an array using componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:

var wordArray = contents.componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.newlineCharacterSet())

Note: The server side technology doesn't matter at all, which is one of the best things about the HTTP protocol ;). That URl could return a static file for all the Swift code (or anyone else) will care.

edited Jul 7, 2014 at 18:23

answered Jul 4, 2014 at 20:21

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