Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

A simple request example

Inside the $GOPATH/src folder that you set up, create a folder called simplerequest. Inside simplerequest, create a file called main.go. Set the contents of main.go to be the following code:

package mainimport ( "log" "net/http" "os")func main() { // Create the variables for the response and error var r *http.Response var err error // Request index.html from example.com r, err = http.Get("http://www.example.com/index.html") // If there is a problem accessing the server, kill the program and print the error the console if err != nil {  panic(err) } // Check the status code returned by the server if r.StatusCode == 200 {  // The request was successful!  var webPageContent []byte // We know the size of the response is 1270 ...