social_parser

SocialParser

Parse social media attributes from url or construct url from attributes.

Supported provider

[:facebook, :github, :instagram, :github, :google, :linkedin, :medium, :pinterest, :qiita, :twitter, :vimeo, :youtube]

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'social_parser'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install social_parser

Usage

The following code is an example of Twitter.

parser = SocialParser.parse 'https://www.twitter.com/hyde141421356'
=> #<SocialParser::Provider::Twitter:0x007fc57720a690 @url="https://www.twitter.com/hyde141421356">

parser.username
=> 'hyde141421356'

parser.provider
=> :twitter

parser.url
=> 'https://www.twitter.com/hyde141421356'

Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc... as well.

parser = SocialParser.parse 'https://github.com/hyde2able'
=> #<SocialParser::Provider::Github:0x007fc5771e3c98 @url="https://github.com/hyde2able">

parser.username
=> 'hyde2able'

parser.provider
=> :github

parser.url
=> 'https://github.com/hyde2able'

An example of Youtube.

parser = SocialParser.parse 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOvdMz4yM9U'
=> #<SocialParser::Provider::Youtube:0x007faa5e26fd58 @url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOvdMz4yM9U", @type="video">

parser.id # alias parser.username
=> 'WOvdMz4yM9U'

parser.embed_url
=> 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/WOvdMz4yM9U'

When an embedded URL is not provided

parser = SocialParser.parse 'https://github.com/hyde2able'
=> #<SocialParser::Provider::Github:0x007faa5e06d7a8 @url="https://github.com/hyde2able">

parser.embed_url
# SocialParser::InvalidURIError: SocialParser::InvalidURIError

Test

Excute this code

bundle exec rspec

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.