Furlex

Furlex is a structured data extraction tool written in Elixir.

It currently supports unfurling oEmbed, Twitter Card, Facebook Open Graph, JSON-LD and plain ole’ HTML <meta /> data out of any url you supply.

Installation

Add :furlex to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:furlex, "~> 0.1.1"}]
end

Then run $ mix deps.get. Also add :furlex to your applications list:

def application do
  [applications: [:furlex]]
end

Usage

To unfurl a url, first configure the tags you’d like to capture under each parser (or simply copy+paste the following into your config.exs):

config :furlex, Furlex.Parser.Facebook,
  tags: ~w(
    fb:app_id fb:pages

    og:url og:title og:description og:image og:type og:locale og:video
    og:video:url og:video:secure_url og:video:type og:video:width
    og:video:height og:image:url og:image:secure_url og:image:type
    og:image:width og:image:height og:audio og:determiner og:locale:alternate
    og:site_name og:image:alt

    article:published_time article:modified_time
    article:expiration_time article:author article:section article:tag

    book:author book:isbn book:release_date book:tag

    profile:first_name profile:last_name profile:username profile:gender

    music:duration music:album music:album:disc music:album:track
    music:musician music:song music:song:disc music:song:track
    music:release_date music:creator

    video:actor video:actor:role video:director video:duration
    video:release_date video:tag video:writer video:series
  )

config :furlex, Furlex.Parser.Twitter,
  tags: ~w(
    twitter:card twitter:site twitter:domain twitter:url twitter:site:id
    twitter:creator twitter:creator:id twitter:description twitter:title
    twitter:image twitter:image:alt twitter:player twitter:player:width
    twitter:player:height twitter:player:stream twitter:app:name:iphone
    twitter:app:id:iphone twitter:app:url:iphone twitter:app:name:ipad
    twitter:app:id:ipad twitter:app:url:ipad twitter:app:name:googleplay
    twitter:app:url:googleplay twitter:app:id:googleplay
  )

Then simply pass a url to Furlex.unfurl/1

iex(1)> Furlex.unfurl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh6H7Md_L2k"
{:ok,
 %Furlex{canonical_url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh6H7Md_L2k",
  facebook: %{"fb:app_id" => "87741124305",
    "og:description" => "Watch the full episode: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/ask-toh-future-house-offerman Ask This Old House host Kevin O’Connor visits Nick Offerman in Los A...",
    "og:image" => "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gh6H7Md_L2k/maxresdefault.jpg",
    "og:site_name" => "YouTube",
    "og:title" => "Touring Nick Offerman’s Wood Shop", "og:type" => "video",
    "og:url" => "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh6H7Md_L2k",
    "og:video:height" => ["720", "720"],
    "og:video:secure_url" => ["https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gh6H7Md_L2k",
     "https://www.youtube.com/v/Gh6H7Md_L2k?version=3&autohide=1"],
    "og:video:type" => ["text/html", "application/x-shockwave-flash"],
    "og:video:url" => ["https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gh6H7Md_L2k",
     "http://www.youtube.com/v/Gh6H7Md_L2k?version=3&autohide=1"],
    "og:video:width" => ["1280", "1280"]},
  json_ld: [%{"@context" => "http://schema.org", "@type" => "BreadcrumbList",
     "itemListElement" => [%{"@type" => "ListItem",
        "item" => %{"@id" => "http://www.youtube.com/user/thisoldhouse",
          "name" => "This Old House"}, "position" => 1}]}],
  oembed: %{"author_name" => "This Old House",
    "author_url" => "https://www.youtube.com/user/thisoldhouse",
    "height" => 270,
    "html" => "<iframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gh6H7Md_L2k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>",
    "provider_name" => "YouTube", "provider_url" => "https://www.youtube.com/",
    "thumbnail_height" => 360,
    "thumbnail_url" => "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gh6H7Md_L2k/hqdefault.jpg",
    "thumbnail_width" => 480, "title" => "Touring Nick Offerman’s Wood Shop",
    "type" => "video", "version" => "1.0", "width" => 480},
  other: %{"description" => "Watch the full episode: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/ask-toh-future-house-offerman Ask This Old House host Kevin O’Connor visits Nick Offerman in Los A...",
    "keywords" => "this old house, how-to, home improvement, Episode, TV Show, DIY, Ask This Old House, Nick Offerman, Kevin O'Connor, woodworking, wood shop",
    "theme-color" => "#e62117",
    "title" => "Touring Nick Offerman’s Wood Shop"},
  twitter: %{"twitter:app:id:googleplay" => "com.google.android.youtube",
    "twitter:app:id:ipad" => "544007664",
    "twitter:app:id:iphone" => "544007664",
    "twitter:app:name:googleplay" => "YouTube",
    "twitter:app:name:ipad" => "YouTube",
    "twitter:app:name:iphone" => "YouTube",
    "twitter:app:url:googleplay" => "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh6H7Md_L2k",
    "twitter:app:url:ipad" => "vnd.youtube://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh6H7Md_L2k&feature=applinks",
    "twitter:app:url:iphone" => "vnd.youtube://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh6H7Md_L2k&feature=applinks",
    "twitter:card" => "player",
    "twitter:description" => "Watch the full episode: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/ask-toh-future-house-offerman Ask This Old House host Kevin O’Connor visits Nick Offerman in Los A...",
    "twitter:image" => "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gh6H7Md_L2k/maxresdefault.jpg",
    "twitter:player" => "https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gh6H7Md_L2k",
    "twitter:player:height" => "720", "twitter:player:width" => "1280",
    "twitter:site" => "@youtube",
    "twitter:title" => "Touring Nick Offerman’s Wood Shop",
    "twitter:url" => "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh6H7Md_L2k"}}}

License

Copyright 2017 Clayton Gentry

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0`

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