Reading data from URL

Question

Is there a reasonably easy way to get data from some url? I tried the most obvious version, does not work:

readcsv(\"https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/.../test         


        

Answer 1

The Requests package seems to work pretty well. There are others (see the entire package list) but Requests is actively maintained.

Obtaining it

julia> Pkg.add("Requests")

julia> using Requests

Using it

You can use one of the exported functions that correspond to the various HTTP verbs get, post, etc which returns a Response type

julia> res = get("http://julialang.org")
Response(200 OK, 21 Headers, 20913 Bytes in Body)

julia> typeof(res)
Response (constructor with 8 methods)

And then, for example, you can print the data using @printf

julia> @printf("%s",res.data);



  
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