How to download a page in swift2 without using third party libraries?

Question

I am trying to show the downloaded HTML page in the app. Please explain the simplest way to do so without using any third party libraries.

cheers,

Answer 1

You can show a html page in app without downloading

 let pageUrl = NSURL (string: "http://www.stackoverflow.com");
 let req = NSURLRequest(URL: url!);

if you want to show a local file you show like this

let htmlfilePath = NSBundle.mainBundle().URLForResource("filename", withExtension: "html");
    let req = NSURLRequest(URL: htmlfilePath !);
    webview.loadRequest(req);

to download a file you can use plain NSURLSession

Answer 2

You should use NSURLSession dataTaskWithURL to download your website data asynchronously:

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    let stackoverflowLink = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36315798/how-to-download-a-page-in-swift2-without-using-third-party-libraries"

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        guard let url = NSURL(string: stackoverflowLink) else  { return }
        print("LOADING URL")
        NSURLSession.sharedSession().dataTaskWithURL(url) { (data, response, error) -> Void in
            guard
                let httpURLResponse = response as? NSHTTPURLResponse where httpURLResponse.statusCode == 200,
                let data = data where error == nil,
                let htmlCode = String(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) // make sure you use the correct String Encoding
            else { return }
            print( htmlCode)
            print("URL LOADED")
        }.resume()
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }
}

Answer 3

You can download a web site directly into an NSData object as in this example (Objective-C);

    NSURL *tutorialsUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials"];
    NSData *tutorialsHtmlData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:tutorialsUrl];

Swift example;

    let aString = "http://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t31.0-8/q88/s720x720/10848858_907722502601079_2834541930671169073_o.jpg"
    let url = NSURL(string: aString)
    let data = NSData(contentsOfURL: url!)

Ray has a great tutorial here;

https://www.raywenderlich.com/14172/how-to-parse-html-on-ios