Get image using imgur API in Ruby (on Rails)
imgur, ruby, ruby-on-rails
Solution
You need to enable https to make an https call.
http.use_ssl = true
I know this was figured out, but I figured I'd add an explicit answer.
Problem
I'm trying to pull an image from imgur using the provided API with Ruby 2.0.0 and Rails 4.0.0. I've tried constructing an http request in various ways as listed in the Ruby 2.0.0 docs to no avail. Here's the code: ``` require 'net/http' require 'net/https' def imgur headers = { "Authorization" => "Client-ID " + my_client_id } path = "/3/gallery/image/#{img_id}.json" uri = URI("https://api.imgur.com"+path) request, data = Net::HTTP::Get.new(path, headers) response = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port).start {|http| http.request(request) } puts "response:" p response puts response end ``` where `img_id` and `my_client_id` are just hardcoded with appropriate values. (`imgur` method is called within a controller action corresponding to my site's root url) This is the response I get back when I run `rails s` (so I'm using localhost:3000) and then visit the root url, localhost:3000 (which does call the action that calls `imgur`): ``` #<Net::HTTPBadRequest 400 Bad Request readbody=true> #<Net::HTTPBadRequest:0x007f8a6ce0da78> ``` UPDATE: Also, this worked: `curl --header "Authorization: Client-ID my_client_id" https://api.imgur.com/3/gallery/image/7x98w9T.json` (again, `my_client_id` is hardcoded with my actual client ID). Now to get it to work on Ruby... Anyone know the right way to do this?