June 2018 Update

Task/Web-scraping/Ceylon/web-scraping.ceylon

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+import ceylon.uri {
+    parse
+}
+import ceylon.http.client {
+    get
+}
+
+shared void run() {
+
+    // apparently the cgi link is deprecated?
+    value oldUri = "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl";
+    value newUri = "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/timer.pl";
+
+    value contents = downloadContents(newUri);
+    value time = extractTime(contents);
+    print(time else "nothing found");
+}
+
+String downloadContents(String uriString) {
+    value uri = parse(uriString);
+    value request = get(uri);
+    value response = request.execute();
+    return response.contents;
+}
+
+String? extractTime(String contents) =>
+        contents
+        .lines
+        .filter((String element) => element.contains("UTC"))
+        .first
+        ?.substring(4, 21);