How To Parse API Response Kimonofy

Question

I'm learning to use API's and started with Kimonify extracting some page data from Amazon. In the view the data is coming through via the @response variable.

How can I parse this and just show the Author Name and Rank which is #22?

class HomeController < ApplicationController
  def index
   require 'rubygems'
   require 'json'
   require 'rest_client'

   @response = RestClient.get 'https://www.kimonolabs.com/api/83x1k5ua?apikey=Gsj16resq87I8wRiaVjOrtzrs0WbAhZr'

 end
end

index.html.erb

<h1>Home#index</h1>
<p>Find me in app/views/home/index.html.erb</p>
<p> <%= @response %> </p>

{ "name": "Tim Weed Sales Rank Colonial", 
  "count": 1, 
  "frequency": 
  "Every 15 mins", 
  "version": 11, 
  "newdata": true, 
  "lastrunstatus": "success", 
  "lastsuccess": "Tue Dec 23 2014 17:28:30 GMT+0000 (UTC)",
  "thisversionstatus": "success", 
  "nextrun": "Tue Dec 23 2014 17:43:30 GMT+0000 (UTC)", 
  "results": { "Tim Weed Sales Rank Colonial": [ { "Title": "Will Poole's Island [Kindle Edition]", 
               "Colonial Historical Fiction Rank": "#22" } ] 
             } 
  }

Looks like you're getting JSON back. See this post if you need to learn how to parse JSON. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1826727/how-do-i-parse-json-with-ruby-on-rails — NM Pennypacker, Dec 23 '14 at 18:17
Thank you @NickM. This article was also really helpful. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6284743/covert-json-string-to-json-array-in-rails — PatGW, Dec 29 '14 at 20:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

Found an up to date link to an article on parsing a JSON response.

Convert JSON String to JSON Array in rails?

Update below

response = RestClient.get 'https://www.kimonolabs.com/api/83x1k5ua?apikey=Gsj16resq87I8wRiaVjOrtzrs0WbAhZr'

Took response and parsed it using the line below. Then stored the parsed JSON in the @json variable also shown below.

@json = JSON.parse(response)

To then show this in my view I used the code below. Kimonify separates these items into results, collections and properties etc.

<p> <%= @json["results"]["collection1"][0]["property1"]["href"] %> </p>

How To Parse API Response Kimonofy

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