Linkr

Overview

A Ruby library for following links. NET/HTTP does not auto-redirect when webpages return redirects 301's. Also with the amount of url shortening services out there it is common to want to resolve urls to the cononical version.

Linkr fixes this problem through a simple interface.

Dependencies

Uses Net::HTTP under the hood.
Linkr requires the addressable Gem. This will be installed as a dependancy when you install Linkr

Installation

gem install linkr

Usage

require 'linkr'

# easy url resolving 
Linkr.resolve("http://bbc.in/pdTHqe") => http://www.bbc.co.uk

# if you need more info
link = Linkr.new("http://bbc.in/pdTHqe", {
  redirect_limit => 10 # default 5
}) 
link.body => "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Tr
ansitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xh".......</body></html>"

Todo

currently the passed url is returned unless it is redrected, so 500 errors for example are not reflected
refactor resolve code

Contributing

Fork the project
Send a pull request
Don't touch the .gemspec, I'll do that when I release a new version

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