Super simple Ruby Icons8 API (http://api.icons8.com/) client

icons8_client.rb

  require 'hashie'
  require 'faraday'
  require 'faraday_middleware'
  # Supersimple http://api.icons8.com/ client.
  # Usage:
  #   Icons8Client.new.search('icon')
  # See: https://gist.github.com/joost/e149404f645f33ba1939
  class Icons8Client

    def initialize(options = {})
      @platform = options[:platform] # Can be 'win8', 'ios7', 'android'
    end

    API_URL = "http://api.icons8.com/api/iconsets/"

    def connection
      @connection ||= Faraday.new(url: API_URL, params: {platform: @platform}.delete_if {|k,v| v.blank?}) do |conn|
        conn.adapter    Faraday.default_adapter
        conn.response   :mashify
        conn.response   :xml
      end
    end

    def get(path, params = {})
      connection.get(path, params)
    rescue Faraday::ParsingError
      nil
    end

    # Returns Array of icon Hashie's.
    def search(term)
      response = get('search', term: term)
      result = response.body.icons8.result.search.icon
      return [] if result.nil?
      return result.is_a?(Array) ? result : [result]
    end

  end # Icons8Client

Good one! Where do you use it?

It seems to me your code doesn't work

def search(term)
      response = get('https://api.icons8.com/api/iconsets/search', term: term) # should use HTTPS and full URL maybe
      ...