Project: thumbnailer-ruby - The Ruby Toolbox

Welcome to thumbnailer

thumbnailer is a Ruby library for getting thumbnail images from various sites with idiotic artificial intelligence.

Supported sites

YouTube
Flickr
TwitPic
Google Video
Vimeo
Dailymotion
For unlisted sites WebSnapr

Configuration

You need Flickr and WebSnapr Api key and you must set keys in thumbnailer.yml file. Sample configuration file under the example directory. If you are using Rails you may create the YOUR_RAILS_APP/config/thumbnailer.yml

What is Idiotic Artificial Intelligence?

Probably nothing.

here is an example:

module Thumbnailer
  class VideoGoogle < Thumbnailer::Base
    def initialize(uri)
      begin
        params = CGI.parse(uri.query)
        doc = open("http://video.google.com/videofeed?docid=#{params['docid']}").read
        doc = XML::Parser.string(doc).parse.find("//channel/item/media:group/media:thumbnail")

        @thumb_image = doc[0]['url']
        @small_thumb_image = @thumb_image
        @embed_url = "#{uri.scheme}://#{uri.host}/googleplayer.swf?docId=#{params['docid']}"
      rescue
      end
    end
  end
end

Download

[sudo] gem i thumbnailer-ruby
http://github.com/yalcin/thumbnailer
git clone git://github.com/yalcin/thumbnailer.git

Usage

require 'rubygems'
require 'thumbnailer'

s = Thumbnailer::Fetcher.new('http://www.vimeo.com/12077673')
p s.media.thumb_image
p s.media.embed_url

Authors

Yalcin ACIKYILDIZ (yalcin@webliyacelebi.com)

This library is released under the terms of the GNU/GPL.

thumbnailer-ruby