This is LRD's fork of twimage by Rob Cameron. Our fork adds support for lockerz.com image service, and fixes a problem we ran into on some twitpic images.
Twimage provides an easy way to pull raw images from the various Twitter photo image services (twitpic, yfrog, etc.)
Add twimage to your Gemfile:
gem 'lrd_twimage'
Of without bundler:
gem install lrd_twimage
Now simply take the standard URL that is posted to Twitter and tell Twimage to go get it:
result = Twimage.get('http://instagr.am/p/EHqLG/')
Twimage will create a Ruby tempfile with the image. To get the tempfile:
result.tempfile
Save the image to your local system, upload to S3, etc. As soon as there are no more references to the
tempfile in your code it will be unlinked (deleted). There are a couple additional instance variables
you have access to...try result.inspect to take a look.
Twimage will follow any redirects that eventually get you to any of the included services. So, if you have a Instagram image behind a Bitly shortened URL, just give the Bitly link to Twimage and he'll (she'll?) take care of the rest.
Enjoy!
LRDTwimage currently supports the following services:
To add a parser, fork this repo and then send me a pull request. You should attempt to get the highest resolution
version of the image possible, which isn't always available at the link posted to Twitter. Check out the SERVICES
constant in twimage.rb for examples of lambdas used to modify the original service_url to get to the full res
version's URL.
FAQs
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We found that lrd_twimage demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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