UrlInfoExtractor

The library helps you extracting some metadata out of HTML URLs.

https://github.com/der-flo/url_info_extractor

% gem install url_info_extractor

require 'url_info_extractor'
infos = UrlInfoExtractor.new('http://rubygems.org')
puts infos.title
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puts infos.favicon_url
# http://rubygems.org/favicon.ico
puts infos.favicon_exists?
# true
puts infos.description
#

Note that the favicon handling determines the URL by link-rel-icon tag and base tag. favicon_exists? does an HTTP HEAD request to check whether the icon is available at the determined path.

If you find this library useful but miss some feature, please drop me a note or - even better - fork the project at GitHub. Along with some specs I'll accept your pull requests.

• Florian Dütsch (mail AT florian-duetsch.de)
• MIT, see LICENSE file.