Accessing a 3rd party API JSON object in ruby - ruby

Question

Been messing around with Kickbox's api for email verification. I'm trying to have the program only display the result object in the returned JSON.
Here's the code:
require "kickbox"
require 'httparty'
require 'json'
client = Kickbox::Client.new('ac748asdfwef2fbf0e8177786233a6906cd3dcaa')
kickbox = client.kickbox()
response = kickbox.verify("test#easdfwf.com")
file = File.read(response)
json = JSON.parse(file)
json['result']
I'm getting an error verify.rb:10:in read': no implicit conversion of Kickbox::HttpClient::Response into String (TypeError)
from verify.rb:10:in'
Here's a sample response:
{
"result":"undeliverable",
"reason":"rejected_email",
"role":false,
"free":false,
"disposable":false,
"accept_all":false,
"did_you_mean":"bill.lumbergh#gmail.com",
"sendex":0,
"email":"bill.lumbergh#gamil.com",
"user":"bill.lumbergh",
"domain":"gamil.com",
"success":true,
"message":null
}

Answer 1

You are getting this error:
read': no implicit conversion of Kickbox::HttpClient::Response into String (TypeError)
Because, in this line:
file = File.read(response)
Your response is a Kickbox::HttpClient::Response type object, but the File.read is expecting a String object instead (possibly a file name with path).
I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but this: file = File.read(response) is wrong. You can't do this and that's why you are getting the mentioned error.
If you really want to use file, then you can write the response to a file and then read the response back from the file and use that:
f = File.new('response.txt', 'w+') # creating a file in read/write mode
f.write(response) # writing the response into that file
file_content = File.read('response.txt') # reading the response back from the file
So, the issue is not about Accessing a 3rd party API JSON object in ruby, but you are trying to use File.read in a wrong way.
You can get the response from the API by doing this:
client = Kickbox::Client.new('YOUR_API_KEY')
kickbox = client.kickbox()
response = kickbox.verify("test#easdfwf.com")
Then, you can play with the response e.g. can do a puts response.inspect or puts response.body.inspect and see what's inside that object.
And, from there you can extract your required outputs only.