Video Grabber

Video Grabber is a simple tool to get video tags from a given URL. It includes advanced techniques to desobfuscate advertisements, run through embedded iframes, run javascript, and other frivolities that could usually and notably prevent one to fetch the wanted video.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'video_grabber'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install video_grabber

And require it in your application:

irb(main):001:0> require 'video_grabber'
=> true

If you plan to use Firefox as your browser, video_grabber will then rely on Headless (unless you specifically disable it). To get Headless working you will need linux and xvfb.

Install xvfb on Debian:

sudo apt-get install xvfb

Headless is used to run Firefox inside a headless display (in background).

Start the Scraper

video_grabber = VideoGrabber.new(url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Buck_Bunny').call

Fetch your links and shut down your scraper:

video_grabber.fetch_videos
=> ["<video  id=\"mwe_player_1\" poster=\"//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/com...

If you want to fetch a new time those data, you can manually restart the service using:

video_grabber.start

Or you can directly pass the param keep_browser_open during initialization.

• url: The url of the resource containing the video(s)
• timeout: (default: 60) The timeout for the scraper. Will trigger a VideoGrabber::Timeout if the delay is met.
• keep_browser_open (default: false) If activated, will keep the scraper's browser open as long as you do not stop it (using the stop public method.).
• headless_enabled (default: true) If disabled, will open your browser to crawl your links.
• browser (default: :firefox) Set the browser which will be used to browse websites .
• html_attributes (default: {controls: true}) This option enables you to pass html attributes that will be passed to your crawled links elements.
• firefox_extension_path If passed, your Scraper instance will run using the given extension (.xpi file). Your browser has to be set at Firefox. Useful if you want to benefit from an Adblocker for instance

Video Grabber follows Semantic Versioning 2.0.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/bridge2think/video_grabber/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Any question ? Feel free to contact me at ss(at)bridge2think.com . Any issue ? Open a ticket !

Copyright (c) 2017 Bridge2Think AG

Released under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md for more details.