Parse media easily

Simple JavaScript library to ease integration with media and oEmbed. Useful for obtaining direct links to media content and thumbnails. Uses a combination of oEmbed APIs and custom APIs.

You should see media-embed-server for a server that provides this as a JSON/JSONP service.

Installing the library

Installing the service is quite easy:

npm install media-parser

Parsing info about a resource

// Signature (timeout is in milliseconds):
media_parser = require('media-parser')
media_parser.parse(content, callback, timeout=5000)

// Example
media_parser = require('media-parser')
callback = function(obj) { 
    console.log(obj); 
    console.log(obj.get_thumbnail_url(55)); 
}
media_parser.parse('This is a test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0', callback)
 
// Will print
{ 
    "get_thumbnail_url": [Function],
    "title": 'PSY - GANGNAM STYLE (강남스타일) M/V',
    "raw": { .. raw oEmbed data .. }
}

Result description

// Example
{
    "title": "...",
    "underlying_type": ... can be: [page, image, video, audio] ,
    "content_url": ... direct link to the content (only for some),
    "content_type": ... MIME type of content_url,
    "raw": ... raw oEmbed response (only for oEmbed resources),
    "get_thumbnail_url": function(min_size) { ... returns thumbnail }
}

Other useful functions

// Extract supported URLs from content
media_parser.extractURLs(content)

// Return an object of supported services:
media_parser.getProviders()

// Return a pattern that can match supported services:
media_parser.getProvidersPattern()

Running tests

Requires buster:

sh compile.sh; buster-test

Adding a new service

It should be quite trivial to add a new service:

• Add a new handler in src/media_services.coffee
• Add the handler to src/media_parser.coffee
• Add a test suite in tests/test_core.coffee
• Test using sh compile.sh; buster-test

Supported services

These services are supported:

• deviantart.com (oEmbed)
• flickr.com (oEmbed)
• hulu.com (oEmbed)
• justin.tv (oEmbed)
• rdio.com (oEmbed)
• screenr.com (oEmbed)
• slideshare.com (oEmbed)
• soundcloud.com (oEmbed)
• spotify.com (oEmbed)
• ted.com (oEmbed)
• vimeo.com (oEmbed)
• youtube.com (oEmbed)
• img.ly (custom)
• instagr.am (custom)
• twitpic.com (custom)
• yfrog.com (custom)

Related

• TodoistMediaParser - similar version done in Java

Authors

• Amir Salihefendic
• Gonçalo Silva