Thumbnail Scraper
detect, fetch and generate a thumbnail for any url
Basic usage
require 'thumbnail_scraper'
include ThumbnailScraper
scraper = ThumbnailScraper.new
image = scraper.image_to_thumbnail_for_url("http://www.example.com/")
thumbnail_url = image.urlThumbnailScraper#image_to_thumbnail_for_url method returns Image object, which contains its size and url.
Suggested usage
We encourage you to use it with delayed_job as jobs queue and dragonfly as image storage tool. Your job could look like following:
require 'thumbnail_scraper'
module Jobs
class ScrapeThumbnailJob < Struct.new(:page)
def perform
scraper = ::ThumbnailScraper::ThumbnailScraper.new
image = scraper.image_to_thumbnail_for_url(page.url)
page.thumbnail_url = image.url.to_s
page.save!
end
end
end