Simple Ruby Gem to get video info from YouTube and Vimeo url.
Tested against Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.3, 2.0.0 and the latest versions of JRuby & Rubinius.
gem install video_infovideo = VideoInfo.get("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.duration => 175 (in seconds)
# video.date => Sat Apr 12 22:25:35 UTC 2008
# video.thumbnail_small => "http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mZqGqE0D0n4/default.jpg"
# video.thumbnail_medium => "http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mZqGqE0D0n4/mqdefault.jpg"
# video.thumbnail_large => "http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mZqGqE0D0n4/hqdefault.jpg"
# video.embed_url => "http://www.youtube.com/embed/mZqGqE0D0n4"
# video.embed_code => "'<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mZqGqE0D0n4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>'"
video = VideoInfo.get("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://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/343/731/34373130_100.jpg"
# video.thumbnail_medium => "http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/343/731/34373130_200.jpg"
# video.thumbnail_large => "http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/343/731/34373130_640.jpg"
# video.embed_url => "http://player.vimeo.com/video/898029"
# video.embed_code => "'<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/898029?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0" frameborder="0"></iframe>'"video = VideoInfo.get("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4", "User-Agent" => "My YouTube Mashup Robot/1.0")
video = VideoInfo.get("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4", "Referer" => "http://my-youtube-mashup.com/")
video = VideoInfo.get("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.get("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
You can also include an iframe_attributes or url_attributes hash to the embed_code method to include arbitrary attributes in the iframe embed code or as additional URL params:
VideoInfo.get("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4").embed_code(:iframe_attributes => { :width => 800, :height => 600, "data-key" => "value" })
=> '<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mZqGqE0D0n4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" width="800" height="600" data-key="value"></iframe>
'VideoInfo.get("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4").embed_code(:url_attributes => { :autoplay => 1 })
=> '<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mZqGqE0D0n4?autoplay=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>'