https://github.com/cannikin/twimage

A gem for pulling images from various Twitter image services
https://github.com/cannikin/twimage

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A gem for pulling images from various Twitter image services

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cannikin/twimage
• Owner: cannikin
• Created: 2011-05-11T03:49:18.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-02-08T19:42:51.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T15:22:07.499Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Twimage

Twimage provides an easy way to pull raw images from the various Twitter photo image services (twitpic, yfrog, etc.)

## Usage

Add twimage to your Gemfile:

    gem 'twimage'

    

Of without bundler:

    gem install twimage

    

Now simply take the standard URL that is posted to Twitter and tell Twimage to go get it:

    result = Twimage.get('http://instagr.am/p/EHqLG/')

    

Twimage will create a Ruby tempfile with the image. To get the tempfile:

    result.tempfile

    

Save the image to your local system, upload to S3, etc. As soon as there are no more references to the

tempfile in your code it will be unlinked (deleted). There are a couple additional instance variables

you have access to...try `result.inspect` to take a look.

Twimage will follow any redirects that eventually get you to any of the included services. So, if you

have a Instagram image behind a Bitly shortened URL, just give the Bitly link to Twimage and he'll

(she'll?) take care of the rest.

Enjoy!

## Support

Twimage currently supports the following photo services:

* twitpic - http://twitpic.com

* yfrog - http://yfrog.com

* instagram - http://instagr.am

* twitter - http://twitter.com

## Contributing

To add a parser, fork this repo and then send me a pull request. You should attempt to get the highest resolution

version of the image possible, which isn't always available at the link posted to Twitter. Check out the `SERVICES`

constant in `twimage.rb` for examples of `lambda`s used to modify the original `service_url` to get to the full res

version's URL.