http.get

Attempt to fetch a webpage, using the same arguments as http.request. This will return the response table or false, an error message and (optionally) a handle with the failing response’s content.

http.get Function
Syntax http.get( url : string headers? : table binary? : boolean )
Returns	table response | boolean false, string error[, table response]
API	http
Source	CC:Tweaked (source)

The HTTP API assumes Unicode by default, meaning you may run into issues when fetching binary data. To avoid this, set binary to true. You will have to pass something to headers to set the binary flag, however just passing nil will work fine, e.g. http.get(url, nil, true).

ExampleDownloading a page
Requests a single page and prints the contents.
Code	<nowiki> -- Make a HTTP request local request, err = http.get("https://example.computercraft.cc") if not request then error(err) end -- Print the contents print(request.readAll()) request.close() -- Don't forget to close! </nowiki>
Output	Prints HTTP is working!

ExampleDownloading binary data
Requests a binary page
Code	<nowiki> -- Make a HTTP request local request, err = http.get("https://example.computercraft.cc/logo.gif", nil, true) -- Set binary mode to true if not request then error(err) end -- Write the binary data to the file local file = fs.open("logo.gif", "wb") -- Open the file in binary mode file.write(request.readAll()) file.close() -- Close the file to save it request.close() -- Close the HTTP request too, now that we are done with it </nowiki>