Scrapifier
It's a Ruby gem that brings a very simple way to extract meta information from URIs using the screen scraping technique.
Note: This gem is mainly focused on screen scraping URLs (presence of protocol, such as: "http", "https" and "ftp"), but it also works with URIs which have the "www" without any protocol defined, like: "www.google.com".
Installation
Compatible with Ruby 1.9.3+
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'scrapifier'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install scrapifier
An then require the gem:
$ require 'scrapifier'
Usage
The String#scrapify method finds URIs in a string and then gets their metadata, e.g., the page's title, description, images, keywords, language, encode, "reply to" email, author and URI. All the data is returned in a well-formatted hash.
Default usage.
'Wow! What an awesome site: http://adtangerine.com!'.scrapify
#=> {
# title: "AdTangerine | Boosting great ideas",
# description: "Advertising social network that uses tangerines as a virtual currency..." ,
# keywords: "ad network, ad, advertising, advertiser, publisher, social media",
# lang: "en-us",
# encode: "utf-8",
# reply_to: "[email protected]",
# author: "Tiago Guedes, Jonatas de Paula, Raphael da Costa",
# images: ["http://adtangerine.com/assets/logo_adt_og.png", "http://adtangerine.com/assets/logo_adt_og.png", "http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/adtangerine-prod/users/avatars/000/000/834/thumb/275747_1118382211_1929809351_n.jpg", "http://adtangerine.com/assets/foobar.gif"],
# uri: "http://adtangerine.com"
# }Allow only certain image types.
'Wow! What an awesome site: http://adtangerine.com!'.scrapify(images: :jpg)
#=> {
# title: "AdTangerine | Boosting great ideas",
# description: "Advertising social network that uses tangerines as a virtual currency..." ,
# keywords: "ad network, ad, advertising, advertiser, publisher, social media",
# lang: "en-us",
# encode: "utf-8",
# reply_to: "[email protected]",
# author: "Tiago Guedes, Jonatas de Paula, Raphael da Costa",
# images: ["http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/adtangerine-prod/users/avatars/000/000/834/thumb/275747_1118382211_1929809351_n.jpg"],
# uri: "http://adtangerine.com"
# }
'Wow! What an awesome site: http://adtangerine.com!'.scrapify(images: [:png, :gif])
#=> {
# title: "AdTangerine | Boosting great ideas",
# description: "Advertising social network that uses tangerines as a virtual currency..." ,
# keywords: "ad network, ad, advertising, advertiser, publisher, social media",
# lang: "en-us",
# encode: "utf-8",
# reply_to: "[email protected]",
# author: "Tiago Guedes, Jonatas de Paula, Raphael da Costa",
# images: ["http://adtangerine.com/assets/logo_adt_og.png", "http://adtangerine.com/assets/logo_adt_og.png", "http://adtangerine.com/assets/foobar.gif"],
# uri: "http://adtangerine.com"
# }Choose which URI you want it to be scraped.
'Check out: http://adtangerine.com and www.twitflink.com'.scrapify(which: 1)
#=> {
# title: "TwitFlink | Find a link!",
# description: "TwitFlink is a very simple searching tool that allows people to find out links tweeted...",
# keywords: "search, searching tool, link, twitter, social media",
# lang: "en-us",
# encode: "utf-8",
# reply_to: "[email protected]",
# author: "Tiago Guedes",
# images: ["http://www.twitflink.com//assets/tf_logo.png", "http://twitflink.com/assets/tf_logo.png"],
# uri: "http://www.twitflink.com"
# }
'Check out: http://adtangerine.com and www.twitflink.com'.scrapify(which: 0, images: :gif)
#=> {
# title: "AdTangerine | Boosting great ideas",
# description: "Advertising social network that uses tangerines as a virtual currency..." ,
# keywords: "ad network, ad, advertising, advertiser, publisher, social media",
# lang: "en-us",
# encode: "utf-8",
# reply_to: "[email protected]",
# author: "Tiago Guedes, Jonatas de Paula, Raphael da Costa",
# images: ["http://adtangerine.com/assets/foobar.gif"],
# uri: "http://adtangerine.com"
# }Contributing
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request