Get social network IDs or screen names from links to social network accounts.
Sometimes you need to get a social network account name from a link — to store a screen name in your database instead of parsing the link every time, or maybe to work with these accounts using social network APIs (as I do). Would be easier to have a library that extracts this kind of information from all known social networks for your pleasure.
gem install ids_pleaseOr, put this in your Gemfile:
gem 'ids_please'This is how you get social IDs from from links:
ids = IdsPlease.new('https://twitter.com/gazay', 'http://facebook.com/alexey.gaziev')
ids.parse
puts ids.parsed[:twitter] # => ["gazay"]
puts ids.parsed[:facebook] # => ["alexey.gaziev"]
puts ids.original # => ["https://twitter.com/gazay", "http://facebook.com/alexey.gaziev"]Or you can just check that the link is for a known social network:
ids = IdsPlease.new('https://twitter.com/gazay', 'http://some-unknown-network.com/gazay')
ids.recognize
puts ids.recognized # => {:twitter=>[#<URI::HTTP:0x007fea3bba7e30 URL:http://twitter.com/gazay>]}
puts ids.unrecognized # => ["http://some-unknown-network.com/gazay"]Social networks supported at the moment:
- Soundcloud
- GooglePlus
- Youtube
- Tumblr
- Vimeo
- Blogger
- Ameba
- Livejournal
- Hi5
- Vkontakte
- Odnoklassniki
- Moikrug
- @gazay
Special thanks to @ai, @yaroslav, @whitequark
Gem named under an impression of an awesome game called Papers, please
The MIT License