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Reputation: 1779

ruby gem for news parsing snippets

I'm using https://github.com/dejan/auto_html for generating the HTML pertaining to media files, does anyone know of anything similar for parsing news stories?

I basically want to do something like Facebook does when you post a URL and it grabs the relevant snippet and image, etc.

I could do this myself but considering the different standards... opengraph, rss, etc. I figured something like this might already exist.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 280

Answers (1)

Chris Zelenak
Chris Zelenak

Reputation: 2178

I actually wrote something for this a while back using oEmbed. The gem is called oembed_links and it will check with oEmbed providers on the appropriate way to embed a resource. It may accomplish what you need.

The original "best" oEmbed domain, oohembed, seems to now be owned by a company called embed.ly which may also be of interest you.

Upvotes: 2

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