NAME

LinkEmbedder - Embed / expand oEmbed resources and other URL / links

SYNOPSIS

  use LinkEmbedder;

  my $embedder = LinkEmbedder->new;
  my $link     = $embedder->get("http://xkcd.com/927");
  print $link->html;

DESCRIPTION

LinkEmbedder is a module that can expand an URL into a rich HTML snippet or simply to extract information about the URL.

Note that this module is currently EXPERIMENTAL. It will replace Mojolicious::Plugin::LinkEmbedder when it gets stable.

These web pages are currently supported:

• http://imgur.com/

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=http://imgur.com/gallery/ohL3e

• https://instagram.com/

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BSRYg_Sgbqe/

  Instagram need some additional JavaScript. Please look at https://github.com/jhthorsen/linkembedder/blob/master/examples/embedder.pl and https://www.instagram.com/developer/embedding/ for more information.

• https://appear.in/

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https://appear.in/link-embedder-demo

• https://gist.github.com

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https://gist.github.com/jhthorsen/3738de6f44f180a29bbb

• https://github.com

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https://github.com/jhthorsen/linkembedder/blob/master/t/basic.t

• https://ix.io

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=http://ix.io/fpW

• https://maps.google.com

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.no%2Fmaps%2Fplace%2FOslo%2C%2BNorway%2F%4059.8937806%2C10.645035…m4!1s0x46416e61f267f039%3A0x7e92605fd3231e9a!8m2!3d59.9138688!4d10.7522454

• https://metacpan.org

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious

• http://paste.opensuse.org

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=http://paste.opensuse.org/2931429

• http://paste.scsys.co.uk

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=http://paste.scsys.co.uk/557716

• http://pastebin.com

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https://pastebin.com/V5gZTzhy

• https://www.spotify.com/

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=spotify:track:0aBi2bHHOf3ZmVjt3x00wv

• https://ted.com

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight

• https://travis-ci.org

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https://travis-ci.org/Nordaaker/convos/builds/47421379

• https://twitter.com

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https://twitter.com/jhthorsen/status/786688349536972802

  Twitter need some additional JavaScript. Please look at https://github.com/jhthorsen/linkembedder/blob/master/examples/embedder.pl and https://dev.twitter.com/web/javascript/initialization for more information.

• https://vimeo.com

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https://vimeo.com/154038415

• https://youtube.com

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOspRE1xnLjE

• https://www.xkcd.com/

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=http://xkcd.com/927

• HTML

  Any web page will be parsed, and "og:", "twitter:", meta tags and other significant elements will be used to generate a oEmbed response.

  Example: http://home.thorsen.pm/demo/link-embedder?url=http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Kunstig-intelligens-ma-ikke-lenger-trenes-av-mennesker-617794b.html

• Images

  URLs that looks like an image is automatically converted into an img tag.

• Video

  URLs that looks like a video resource is automatically converted into a video tag.

ATTRIBUTES

ua

  $ua = $self->ua;

Holds a Mojo::UserAgent object.

url_to_link

  $hash_ref = $self->url_to_link;

Holds a mapping between host names and link class to use.

METHODS

get

  $self = $self->get($url, sub { my ($self, $link) = @_; });
  $link = $self->get($url);

Used to construct a new LinkEmbedder::Link object and retrieve information about the URL.

serve

  $self = $self->serve(Mojolicious::Controller->new, $url);

Used as a helper for Mojolicious web applications to reply to an oEmbed request.

AUTHOR

Jan Henning Thorsen

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.