Fletcher

Fletcher is a cross-website product information fetcher. Just give fletcher a product's url and you'll get back a nice, uniform object that's easy to work with.

• No third-party API access required (good for websites that don't even have API access)
• Uses nokogiri for data parsing

• Amazon
• eBay
• Etsy
• game.co.uk
• Google Shopping
• Newegg
• play.com
• Steam
• ThinkGeek

gem install fletcher

require "fletcher"

product  = Fletcher.fetch "http://www.amazon.com/Avenir-Deluxe-Unicycle-20-Inch-Wheel/dp/B00165Q9F8"

product.name # => "Avenir Deluxe Unicycle (20-Inch Wheel)"

product.description # => "A wonderful unicycle"

product.images.count # => 1
product.image # => {:src => "http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41b3TNb3uCL._SL500_AA300_.jpg", :alt => "Picture of Unicycle"}
product.image.src # => "http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41b3TNb3uCL._SL500_AA300_.jpg"

product.price # => #<Money cents:500 currency:USD>
product.price.to_f # => 5.0
product.price.format # => "$5.00"  
product.price.currency.symbol # => "$"

# Get Raw Nokogiri Document
product.doc.class.name # => Nokogiri::HTML::Document

# Get list of supported websites/services
Fletcher.models # => [:amazon, :ebay, :etsy, :thinkgeek, ...]

Get Product Details (defaults to yaml output):

$ fletcher fetch "http://www.amazon.com/Avenir-Deluxe-Unicycle-20-Inch-Wheel/dp/B00165Q9F8"

---
name: Avenir Deluxe Unicycle (20-Inch Wheel)
description: 'Amazon.com: Avenir Deluxe Unicycle (20-Inch Wheel): Sports & Outdoors'
price: $99.99
image:
  src: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41b3TNb3uCL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
url: http://www.amazon.com/Avenir-Deluxe-Unicycle-20-Inch-Wheel/dp/B00165Q9F8

Get a single attribute of a product:

$ fletcher fetch --only name "http://www.amazon.com/Avenir-Deluxe-Unicycle-20-Inch-Wheel/dp/B00165Q9F8"
Avenir Deluxe Unicycle (20-Inch Wheel)

Get list of supported websites:

$ fletcher websites
Amazon
ThinkGeek
...

Run in debug mode:

fletcher fetch --debug "http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004HZYA6E/"

The following attributes/method are available for a product:

• name - (String) The name of the product
• description - (String) The product's description
• price - (Money) A Money object representing the product's price. This makes converting exchange rates and math functionality easy to use.
• image - (Hash) The main image of the product, if available. This is a hash containing standard HTML attributes: src, alt, width, height, etc.
• images - (Array) An array of product images.
• doc - The raw Nokogiri::HTML::Document object for the product. You can use this to pull other stuff from the product's page.

If you make any changes to fletcher, be sure to run the test suite before creating any pull requests.

bundle install
bundle exec rspec spec/

• Troubleshooting

  • fletcher uses vcr to save http requests for faster testing. To pull real-time http data, clear the vcr cache with rm -rf spec/vcr. Please clear this cache before making a pull request.