How do I parse XML nodes from an API request? - ruby

Question

How do I save the information from an XML page that I got from a API?
The URL is "http://api.url.com?number=8-6785503" and it returns:
<OperatorDataContract xmlns="http://psgi.pts.se/PTS_Number_Service" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Name>Tele2 Sverige AB</Name>
<Number>8-6785503</Number>
</OperatorDataContract>
How do I parse the Name and Number nodes to a file?
Here is my code:
require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
url = "http://api.url.com?number=8-6785503"
doc = Nokogiri::XML(open(url))
File.open("exporterad.txt", "w") do |file|
doc.xpath("//*").each do |item|
title = item.xpath('//result[group_name="Name"]')
phone = item.xpath("/Number").text.strip
puts "#{title} ; \n"
puts "#{phone} ; \n"
company = " #{title}; #{phone}; \n\n"
file.write(company.gsub(/^\s+/,''))
end
end

Answer 1

Besides the fact that your code isn't valid Ruby, you're making it a lot harder than necessary, at least for a simple scrape and save:
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
url = "http://api.pts.se/PTSNumberService/Pts_Number_Service.svc/pox/SearchByNumber?number=8-6785503"
doc = Nokogiri::XML(open(url))
File.open("exported.txt", "w") do |file|
name = doc.at('Name').text
number = doc.at('Number').text
file.puts name
file.puts number
end
Running that results in a file called "exported.txt" that contains:
Tele2 Sverige AB
8-6785503
You can build upon that as necessary.