micawber

A small library for extracting rich content from URLs
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  • MIT/X Consortium Lic...
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Charles Leifer
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.charlesleifer.com/blog/

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micawber is a small Python library for extracting rich content from URLs what does it do?micawber supplies a few methods for retrieving rich metadata about a variety of links, such as links to youtube videos. micawber also provides functions for parsing blocks of text and html and replacing links to videos with rich embedded content.Exampleshere is a quick example:import micawber# load up rules for some default providers, such as youtube and flickrproviders = micawber.bootstrap_basic()providers.request('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XHDUOHuzU')# returns the following dictionary:{ 'author_name': 'pascalbrax', 'author_url': u'http://www.youtube.com/user/pascalbrax' 'height': 344, 'html': u'< iframe width="459" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/54XHDUOHuzU?fs=1&feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen >< /iframe >', 'provider_name': 'YouTube', 'provider_url': 'http://www.youtube.com/', 'title': 'Future Crew - Second Reality demo - HD', 'type': u'video', 'thumbnail_height': 360, 'thumbnail_url': u'http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/54XHDUOHuzU/hqdefault.jpg', 'thumbnail_width': 480, 'url': 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XHDUOHuzU', 'width': 459, 'version': '1.0',}micawber.parse_text('this is a test:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XHDUOHuzU', providers)# returns the following string:this is a test:< iframe width="459" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/54XHDUOHuzU?fs=1&feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen >< /iframe >micawber.parse_html('< p >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XHDUOHuzU< /p >', providers)# returns the following html:< p >< iframe width="459" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/54XHDUOHuzU?fs=1&feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" >< /iframe >< /p >Product's homepage


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