This question is probably poorly structured so please bear with me, I'm new at this.
I'm trying to build a simple web scraper but every time i run my code i get this warning in terminal. I have tried to follow the link to the github issues hoping i would get a clearer explanation but i didn't understand it there either. Tried googling, but nothing there either.
[DEPRECATION] HTTParty will no longer override `response#nil?`.
This functionality will be removed in future versions.
Please, add explicit check `response.body.nil? || response.body.empty?`.
For more info refer to: I guess what i want to know is, in basic terms, what does this warning mean? and is there something i should do different from now on when using the HTTParty gem?
2 Answers
This was annoying me as well. You are probably passing the response from HTTParty.get to some other code that is testing for nil. I was passing the body to Nokogiri::HTML and that code was eventually calling HTTParty.response.nil?. To fix, I started sending the "body" to Nokogiri instead of the response object. Quite a few people will probably run into this as the Nokogiri example code with this pattern is all over the place.
I now use this:
doc = HTTParty.get(')
parsed ||= Nokogiri::HTML(doc.body)instead of before when getting the warning it was:
doc = HTTParty.get(')
parsed ||= Nokogiri::HTML(doc)url = "" unparsed_page = HTTParty.get(url) parsed_page = Nokogiri::HTML(unparsed_page)I was facing same error as yours
[DEPRECATION] HTTParty will no longer override `response#nil?`. This functionality will be removed in future versions. Please, add explicit check `response.body.nil? || response.body.empty?`. For more info refer to:
/home/abir/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.2/gems/nokogiri-1.11.1-x86_64-linux/lib/nokogiri/html/document.rb:209:in `parse'So changed the code as Jeremy Mullin said and it is working fine now.
url = "" unparsed_page = HTTParty.get(url) parsed_page = Nokogiri::HTML(unparsed_page.body)
