How can I iterate through lines of a remote file in shell using cURL?

Question

I understand how to iterate through lines in a local file. But how about a remote file?

while read NAME
do
    echo "$NAME"
done < curl -sL 'http://mylistofnames.com/list.html

If this were local, I would replace the last line with done < names.txt. I'm stuck on remote.

Answer 1

Put the curl command in a bash process substitution:

while read NAME
do
    echo "$NAME"
done < <(curl -sL 'http://mylistofnames.com/list.html')

Piping works as well, but if variables are set in the while loop and they are needed outside the scope of the while loop then this solution becomes necessary.

Answer 2

Pipe the output:

curl -sL 'http://mylistofnames.com/list.html' | while read NAME
    do echo "$NAME"
done

With process substitution:

while read NAME
    do echo "$NAME"
done < <(curl -sL 'http://mylistofnames.com/list.html')