gem directlink

This tool obtains from any sort of hyperlink (a thumbnail URL, a link to a photo album, a news article, etc.) a directlink(s) to high resolution images at that page. Also it tells the resulting resolution and the image type (format). The gem also includes a binary so you can use it as a CLI.

Usage

As an executable

$ gem install directlink

$ directlink
usage: directlink [--debug] [--json] [--github] <link1> <link2> <link3> ...

Converts <img src= attribute value from any Google web service to the largest available:

$ directlink //4.bp.blogspot.com/-5kP8ndL0kuM/Wpt82UCqvmI/AAAAAAAAEjI/ZbbZWs0-kgwRXEJ9JEGioR0bm6U8MOkvQCKgBGAs/w530-h278-p/IMG_20171223_093922.jpg
<= //4.bp.blogspot.com/-5kP8ndL0kuM/Wpt82UCqvmI/AAAAAAAAEjI/ZbbZWs0-kgwRXEJ9JEGioR0bm6U8MOkvQCKgBGAs/w530-h278-p/IMG_20171223_093922.jpg
=> https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5kP8ndL0kuM/Wpt82UCqvmI/AAAAAAAAEjI/ZbbZWs0-kgwRXEJ9JEGioR0bm6U8MOkvQCKgBGAs/s0/IMG_20171223_093922.jpg
   jpeg 4160x3120

Given the link to a page it tries to find the main image on it.

$ directlink https://plus.google.com/107956229381790410785/posts/Gu9apRHri41
<= https://plus.google.com/107956229381790410785/posts/Gu9apRHri41
=> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mRDjiHoDA30/W0mndQaRXeI/AAAAAAAAfyA/NhZGMAoQsbAb8cUFDzNWh-NXQ9O-YQhuQCJoC/s0/001
   jpeg 2000x1328

Retrieves all images from Imgur album or gallery, orders them by resolution from high to low:

$ directlink https://imgur.com/a/oacI3gl
<= https://imgur.com/a/oacI3gl
=> https://i.imgur.com/QpOBvRY.png
   image/png 460x460
=> https://i.imgur.com/9j4KdkJ.png
   image/png 100x100

Follows redirects:

$ directlink https://goo.gl/ySqUb5
<= https://goo.gl/ySqUb5
=> https://i.imgur.com/QpOBvRY.png
   image/png 460x460

Accepts multiple input links:

$ directlink https://imgur.com/a/oacI3gl https://goo.gl/ySqUb5
<= https://imgur.com/a/oacI3gl
=> https://i.imgur.com/QpOBvRY.png
   image/png 460x460
=> https://i.imgur.com/9j4KdkJ.png
   image/png 100x100
<= https://goo.gl/ySqUb5
=> https://i.imgur.com/QpOBvRY.png
   image/png 460x460

Emits JSON:

$ directlink --json https://imgur.com/a/oacI3gl https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/2870363?100
[
  [
    {
      "url": "https://i.imgur.com/QpOBvRY.png",
      "width": 460,
      "height": 460,
      "type": "image/png"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://i.imgur.com/9j4KdkJ.png",
      "width": 100,
      "height": 100,
      "type": "image/png"
    }
  ],
  {
    "url": "https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/2870363?100",
    "width": 460,
    "height": 460,
    "type": "jpeg"
  }
]

By default tries to parse the <meta property="og:image" tag in the "don't give up" mode but can also ignore it:

$ directlink --ignore-meta https://www.kp.ru/daily/26342.7/3222103/
<= https://www.kp.ru/daily/26342.7/3222103/
=> https://s11.stc.all.kpcdn.net/share/i/12/8024261/wx1080.jpg
   jpeg 1080x653
=> https://s13.stc.all.kpcdn.net/share/i/12/8024233/wx1080.jpg
   jpeg 1080x653
...

Downloads master:HEAD version of lib/directlink.rb from GitHub and uses it once instead of installed one:

$ directlink --github https://imgur.com/a/oacI3gl

When an image hosting with known API is recognized, it will try to use the API tokens you've provided as env vars (otherwise it will go the "don't give up" mode):

$ export IMGUR_CLIENT_ID=0f99cd781...
$ export FLICKR_API_KEY=dc2bfd348b...
$ export REDDIT_SECRETS=secrets.yaml
$ export VK_ACCESS_TOKEN=2f927d82d...

(check the format of reddit secrets file in the reddit_bot gem dependency README)

the "don't give up mode"

If the passed link is not the image link or a photo page of a known image hosting, the tool is still able to find the main images that the linked webpage contains. Like in the second example of this README or here -- it found three images in the markdown file:

$ directlink https://github.com/Nakilon/dhash-vips
<= https://github.com/Nakilon/dhash-vips
=> https://camo.githubusercontent.com/852607c7f4b604fc3c83b782c4f6983cf488b0d4/68747470733a2f2f73746f726167652e676f6f676c65617069732e636f6d2f64686173682d766970732e6e616b696c6f6e2e70726f2f64686173685f69737375655f6578616d706c652e706e67
   png 592x366
=> https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5e354666bac69e32d605dbd45351bfb7d808924b/68747470733a2f2f73746f726167652e676f6f676c65617069732e636f6d2f64686173682d766970732e6e616b696c6f6e2e70726f2f6964686173685f6578616d706c655f696e2e706e67
   png 773x679
=> https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5456cc20ae9b20c06792ddd19b533ae36404d8c1/68747470733a2f2f73746f726167652e676f6f676c65617069732e636f6d2f64686173682d766970732e6e616b696c6f6e2e70726f2f6964686173685f6578616d706c655f6f75742e706e67
   png 1610x800

It can even find images in the Markdown body of a Reddit self post! (new feature, needs more testing)

As a library

irb> require "directlink"
irb> require "pp"

irb> pp DirectLink "https://imgur.com/a/oacI3gl"
[#<struct
  url="https://i.imgur.com/QpOBvRY.png",
  width=460,
  height=460,
  type="image/png">,
 #<struct
  url="https://i.imgur.com/9j4KdkJ.png",
  width=100,
  height=100,
  type="image/png">]

Google can serve image in arbitrary resolution so DirectLink.google has an optional argument to specify the desired width:

irb> DirectLink.google "//4.bp.blogspot.com/-5kP8ndL0kuM/Wpt82UCqvmI/AAAAAAAAEjI/ZbbZWs0-kgwRXEJ9JEGioR0bm6U8MOkvQCKgBGAs/w530-h278-p/IMG_20171223_093922.jpg", 100
=> "https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5kP8ndL0kuM/Wpt82UCqvmI/AAAAAAAAEjI/ZbbZWs0-kgwRXEJ9JEGioR0bm6U8MOkvQCKgBGAs/s100/IMG_20171223_093922.jpg"

To disable the "don't give up" mode (otherwise it consumes time on analyzing all the images on the linked page):

irb> DirectLink "https://github.com/Nakilon/dhash-vips", nil, true
# raises FastImage::UnknownImageType

To silent the STDOUT logger that you may see sometimes:

DirectLink.silent = true

You also may look into bin/directlink as a library usage example and the list of all possible exceptions.

about long retries

Some network exceptions like SocketError may be not permanent (local network issues) so NetHTTPUtils (that resolves redirect at the beginning of DirectLink() call) by default retries exponentially increasing retry delay until it gets to 3600sec, but such exceptions can have permanent reasons like a canceled web domain. To see it:

NetHTTPUtils.logger.level = Logger::WARN

W 180507 102210 : NetHTTPUtils : retrying in 10 seconds because of SocketError 'Failed to open TCP connection to minus.com:80 (getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known)' at: http://minus.com/

To make DirectLink() respond faster pass an optional argument that specifies the max retry delay. Here we get the exception immediately:

DirectLink "http://minus.com/", 0

SocketError: Failed to open TCP connection to minus.com:80 (getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known) to http://minus.com/

Ruby 2.0

The addressable dependency (for proper URI parsing) has a dependency that by default wants Ruby 2.1 or higher. You may fix it safely by adding this line to your Gemfile:

gem "jwt", "<2"

Possibly you will instead have a problem with kramdown gem -- solve it the same way:

gem "kramdown", "<2"

(<2 here has nothing to do with the Ruby version -- it's just a coincidence)

Notes:

module DirectLink public methods return different sets of properties -- DirectLink() unites them
the ErrorAssert, ErrorMissingEnvVar and URI::InvalidURIError should never be raised and you might report it
this gem is a historically 2 or 3 libraries merged -- this is why tests may look awkward
500px.com has discontinued API in June 2018 -- the tool now uses undocumented methods
DirectLink() can return an Array of Structs for 1) Imgur 2) Reddit unless giveup = true is set

Development notes/examples

to update tests:

по настоящим ссылкам с настоящими токенами клепаем юниттест и моки

$ env $(cat api_tokens.sh.secret | xargs) bundle exec m unit.test.rb:847

$ ruby -rpp -rjson -e "pp JSON.load STDIN.read" < body.txt

делаем ссылки липовыми, юзаем фейковые токены

$ env $(cat api_tokens.sh | xargs) bundle exec m unit.test.rb:847

по настоящей ссылке делаем интеграционный тест

$ bundle exec m test.rb:123

To get VK integration test access token:

$ https://api.vk.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=...&response_type=token&v=5.75&scope=offline

bundle install
(source api_tokens.sh && bundle exec ruby unit.test.rb)

# for webmocking new reddit tests:
REDDIT_SECRETS=reddit_token.yaml.secret bundle exec ruby unit.test.rb
# json_pp < body.txt | pbcopy
ruby -rpp -rjson -e "pp JSON File.read 'body.txt'" | pbcopy

# for webmocking new vk tests:
# disable the getById stub, source real secrets
(source api_tokens.sh && bundle exec ruby unit.test.rb -n '/vk#test_0012_kinds of links/')
ruby -rpp -rjson -e "pp JSON File.read 'body.txt'" | pbcopy
# edit and enable the getById stub
# edit expectation

# obfuscate urls when done
ruby -e "puts \`pbpaste\`.chars.sort.join"

bundle exec ruby -I./lib ./bin/directlink --debug ...

(source api_tokens.sh.secret && bundle exec ruby integration.test.rb)

env $(cat api_tokens.sh.secret | xargs) bundle exec ruby integration.test.rb -n '/kinds of links vk/'

CI env var skips vk sleep.

TODO: maybe make all these web service specific methods private and discourage to use them since they all return very different things and sometimes don't raise exceptions while the DirectLink() does
TODO: what should --json print if exception was thrown?
TODO: looped prompt mode

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