How Can I Retrieve the HTML Code for A Webpage In Swift

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Using Swift, how can I retrieve the HTML Code of a webpage. I have read up on http requests but I cannot figure out how to implement them to fetch the HTML code. Does anyone know how to do this?

Edit: The similar question suggested does not seem to have a working solution.

This was solved in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24016142/how-to-make-an-http-request-in-swift — Victor Sigler, Oct 27 '14 at 21:31

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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This should do the trick: (adapted from the objective-c in this answer)

let url = NSURL(string: "http://www.example.com")
var error: NSError?
let html = NSString(contentsOfURL: url!, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, error: &error)

if (error != nil) {
    println("whoops, something went wrong")
} else {
    println(html!)
}

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Oct 27 '14 at 22:57

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Whenever I enter an url such as https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl its says "whoops, something went wrong" – user1939991 Oct 27 '14 at 23:12
The error I get is: Optional(Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (Cocoa error 256.)" UserInfo=0x7d26e9b0 {NSURL=https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl}) – user1939991 Oct 27 '14 at 23:17
that seems to be related to SSL? – cmyr Oct 27 '14 at 23:38
is there any way to get html source converted to a string instead NSString? – slash89mf Aug 25 '15 at 15:20
@slash89mf just cast it to string with `as String`. – cmyr Aug 25 '15 at 19:58

How Can I Retrieve the HTML Code for A Webpage In Swift

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