JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a lightweight data interchange format. JSON data maps easily to data structures in most of the modern programming languages. Many of Yahoo!'s Web Service APIs optionally provide you with JSON output, simply by appending a output=json to your query string.
The following example shows how to parse JSON data in Ruby. We'll use the JSON library for Ruby available here for the same. It is available as a gem, so installation is straightforward:
gem install json
require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'net/http'
def news_search(query, results=10, start=1)
base_url = "http://search.yahooapis.com/NewsSearchService/V1/newsSearch?appid=YahooDemo&output=json"
url = "#{base_url}&query=#{URI.encode(query)}&results=#{results}&start=#{start}"
resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
data = resp.body
# we convert the returned JSON data to native Ruby
# data structure - a hash
result = JSON.parse(data)
# if the hash has 'Error' as a key, we raise an error
if result.has_key? 'Error'
raise "web service error"
end
return result
end
Usage of the above:
irb(main):001:0> require 'ruby-json'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> news = news_search('ruby', 2)
=> [...]
irb(main):003:0> news['ResultSet']['Result'].each { |result|
irb(main):004:1* print "#{result['Title']} => #{result['Url']}\n"
irb(main):005:1> }
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=> [...]
irb(main):006:0>
Each result is a Ruby hash containing a number of keys.
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