Connect to URL and dump webpage in Groovy

Question

I would like to open a webpage from groovy, dump the specified webpage and eventually dump the webpage behind an anchor tag.

Does anybody has some sample code for this?

Solution 1

This is a good example

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/Simple+file+download+from+URL

Basically you want to do something like

def data = new URL(feedUrl).getText()

Solution 2

here is a variation

println 'http://www.google.com'.toURL().text

Comments

[shabunc]

as for me any getter method which actually can have params is handier to call directly. getText('utf-8') cannot be shortcuted.

[Armand]

this getter doesn't have params

[Piko]

Love this. When I code in Groovy, I feel guilty since complicated tasks are so simple!