Embed API

URL Embed API with Caching

About

This API uses Metaphor for fetching URL data from multiple sources.

How to use this image

Make sure you have installed docker.

Running locally

To test this service on you local machine, simply run:

docker run --rm --name embed-api humanconnection/embed-api:latest

You can use docker-compose, too:

docker-compose up
# wait until the services are up
curl --header "authentication: embedapitoken" "http://localhost:3050/embeds?url=http://www.human-connection.org/"

Running in Production

Make sure you provide an unique API Key as well as a mongoDB user and password on your production server:

docker run --rm --name embed-api -e "EMBED_API_TOKEN=MYSUPERSECRETSTRING" -e "EMBED_API_MONGO_USER=MONGOUSER" -e "EMBED_API_MONGO_PASS=MONGOPASS" humanconnection/embed-api:latest

Development

1. Make sure you have NodeJS, yarn and mongoDB installed.

2. Install your dependencies

   cd path/to/embed-api; yarn install
   

3. Start your app

   yarn dev
   

4. Get URL Information

   http://localhost:3050/embeds?url=http://www.human-connection.org/
   

5. Do something creative with the following output (More information here: Metaphor)

   {
        site_name: 'YouTube',
        url: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDdd5KKhts',
        title: 'Cheese Shop Sketch - Monty Python\'s Flying Circus',
        image: { url: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cWDdd5KKhts/maxresdefault.jpg' },
        description: 'Subscribe to the Official Monty Python Channel here - http://smarturl.it/SubscribeToPython Cleese plays an erudite customer attempting to purchase some chees...',
        type: 'video',
        video: [
            {
                url: 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/cWDdd5KKhts',
                type: 'text/html',
                width: '480',
                height: '360'
            },
            {
                url: 'https://www.youtube.com/v/cWDdd5KKhts?version=3&autohide=1',
                type: 'application/x-shockwave-flash',
                width: '480',
                height: '360',
                tag: ['Monty Python', 'Python (Monty) Pictures Limited', 'Comedy', 'flying circus', 'monty pythons flying circus', 'john cleese', 'micael palin', 'eric idle', 'terry jones', 'graham chapman', 'terry gilliam', 'funny', 'comedy', 'animation', '60s animation', 'humor', 'humour', 'sketch show', 'british comedy', 'cheese shop', 'monty python cheese', 'cheese shop sketch', 'cleese cheese', 'cheese']
            }
        ],
        thumbnail: {
            url: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cWDdd5KKhts/hqdefault.jpg',
            width: 480,
            height: 360
        },
        embed: {
            type: 'video',
            height: 344,
            width: 459,
            html: '<iframe width="459" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cWDdd5KKhts?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>'
        },
        app: {
            iphone: {
                name: 'YouTube',
                id: '544007664',
                url: 'vnd.youtube://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDdd5KKhts&feature=applinks'
            },
            ipad: {
                name: 'YouTube',
                id: '544007664',
                url: 'vnd.youtube://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDdd5KKhts&feature=applinks'
            },
            googleplay: {
                name: 'YouTube',
                id: 'com.google.android.youtube',
                url: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDdd5KKhts'
            }
        },
        player: {
            url: 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/cWDdd5KKhts',
            width: '480',
            height: '360'
        },
        twitter: { site_username: '@youtube' },
        icon: {
            '32': 'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon_32-vfl8NGn4k.png',
            '48': 'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon_48-vfl1s0rGh.png',
            '96': 'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon_96-vfldSA3ca.png',
            '144': 'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon_144-vflWmzoXw.png',
            smallest: 'https://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon_32-vfl8NGn4k.png'
        },
        preview: '<html><head><title>Cheese Shop Sketch - Monty Python\'s Flying Circus</title></head><body><div class=\'metaphor-embed\'><div class=\'metaphor-embed-header\'><img class="metaphor-embed-header-icon" src="https://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon_32-vfl8NGn4k.png"/><div class="metaphor-embed-header-site">YouTube</div><a class ="metaphor-embed-header-link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDdd5KKhts"><div class="metaphor-embed-header-title">Cheese Shop Sketch - Monty Python\'s Flying Circus</div></a></div><div class=\'metaphor-embed-body\'><div class="metaphor-embed-body-description">Subscribe to the Official Monty Python Channel here - http://smarturl.it/SubscribeToPython Cleese plays an erudite customer attempting to purchase some chees...</div><img class="metaphor-embed-body-image" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cWDdd5KKhts/hqdefault.jpg"/></div></div></body></html>',
        sources: ['ogp', 'resource', 'oembed', 'twitter']
    }
   

Testing

Simply run yarn test and all your tests in the test/ directory will be run.

Testing with docker-compose

You can run eslint and mocha with:

- docker-compose run --rm embed-api yarn run eslint
- docker-compose run --rm embed-api yarn run mocha

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Grzegorz Leoniec

Licensed under the MIT license.