diffbot

Diffbot, a ruby library to access APIs provided by diffbot.com

Requirements

Two ruby gems are required: 'open-uri' and 'json'

Installation

• Download this library and place it in a directory which is accessible

• Require the library

require 'diffbot/base'

• Setup the configuration and make sure it is loaded when the application is loaded

Diffbot::Base.configure do |config|
  config.token = '<developer-token-provided-by-diffbot.com>'
end

Usage

Diffbot::Article.extract(url, options = {})

where,

• url => Article URL to process
• options => An hash to specify optional parameters accepted by the Article API of diffbot.com. More info http://diffbot.com/products/automatic/

Example:

article_data = Diffbot::Article.extract('http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/01/diffbot', fields: 'meta, icon')

The json response from the Article API is parsed using the json library and the resultant hash is returned.

NOTE: This library currently includes methods to access only the article API provided by diffbot.com. Access to other APIs are yet to be implemented.

-- Copyright (c) 2014 [Harish Premkumar].