Small Ruby Gem to get video info from youtube and vimeo url. Tested against Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, REE and the latest versions of JRuby & Rubinius.
gem install video_info video = VideoInfo.new("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4")
# video.video_id => "mZqGqE0D0n4"
# video.provider => "YouTube"
# video.title => "Cherry Bloom - King Of The Knife"
# video.description => "The first video from the upcoming album Secret Sounds, to download in-stores April 14. Checkout http://www.cherrybloom.net"
# video.keywords => "alternative, bloom, cherry, clip, drum, guitar, king, knife, of, Paris-Forum, rock, the, tremplin"
# video.duration => 175 (in seconds)
# video.date => Sat Apr 12 22:25:35 UTC 2008
# video.thumbnail_small => "http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mZqGqE0D0n4/2.jpg"
# video.thumbnail_large => "http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mZqGqE0D0n4/0.jpg"
video = VideoInfo.new("http://vimeo.com/898029")
# video.video_id => "898029"
# video.provider => "Vimeo"
# video.title => "Cherry Bloom - King Of The Knife"
# video.description => "The first video from the upcoming album Secret Sounds, to download in-stores April 14. Checkout http://www.cherrybloom.net"
# video.keywords => "alternative, bloom, cherry, clip, drum, guitar, king, knife, of, Paris-Forum, rock, the, tremplin"
# video.duration => 175 (in seconds)
# video.date => Mon Apr 14 13:10:39 +0200 2008
# video.width => 640
# video.height => 360
# video.thumbnail_small => "http://ts.vimeo.com.s3.amazonaws.com/343/731/34373130_100.jpg"
# video.thumbnail_large => "http://ts.vimeo.com.s3.amazonaws.com/343/731/34373130_640.jpg"
video = VideoInfo.new("http://badurl.com/898029")
# video.valid? => false video = VideoInfo.new("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4", "User-Agent" => "My Youtube Mashup Robot/1.0")
video = VideoInfo.new("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4", "Referer" => "http://my-youtube-mashup.com/")
video = VideoInfo.new("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4", "Referer" => "http://my-youtube-mashup.com/",
"User-Agent" => "My Youtube Mashup Robot/1.0")You can also use symbols instead of strings (any non-word (/[^a-z]/i) character would be converted to hyphen).
video = VideoInfo.new("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4", :referer => "http://my-youtube-mashup.com/",
:user_agent => "My Youtube Mashup Robot/1.0")User-Agent when empty defaults to "VideoInfo/VERSION" - where version is current VideoInfo version, e.g. "VideoInfo/0.2.7".
It supports all openURI header fields (options), for more information see: openURI DOCS