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https://github.com/coleifer/micawber

a small library for extracting rich content from urls
https://github.com/coleifer/micawber

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a small library for extracting rich content from urls

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A small library for extracting rich content from urls.



what does it do?

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micawber supplies a few methods for retrieving rich metadata about a variety of

links, such as links to youtube videos.  micawber also provides functions for

parsing blocks of text and html and replacing links to videos with rich embedded

content.



examples

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here is a quick example:



.. code-block:: python



    import micawber



    # load up rules for some default providers, such as youtube and flickr

    providers = micawber.bootstrap_basic()



    providers.request('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XHDUOHuzU')



    # returns the following dictionary:

    {

        'author_name': 'pascalbrax',

        'author_url': u'http://www.youtube.com/user/pascalbrax'

        'height': 344,

        'html': u'',

        'provider_name': 'YouTube',

        'provider_url': 'http://www.youtube.com/',

        'title': 'Future Crew - Second Reality demo - HD',

        'type': u'video',

        'thumbnail_height': 360,

        'thumbnail_url': u'http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/54XHDUOHuzU/hqdefault.jpg',

        'thumbnail_width': 480,

        'url': 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XHDUOHuzU',

        'width': 459,

        'version': '1.0',

    }



    providers.parse_text('this is a test:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XHDUOHuzU')



    # returns the following string:

    this is a test:

    



    providers.parse_html('
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XHDUOHuzU
')



    # returns the following html: