The elsewhere-profiles is a Social media profile aggregator, it is part of a collection of node.js modules that enable the discovery of profiles and identities an indivdaul creates across the web.
npm install elsewhere-profiles
or
git clone http://github.com/glennjones/elsewhere-profiles.git
cd elsewhere-profiles
npm link
with list of URLs
var parser = require("elsewhere-profiles");
parser.parseUrls('http://glennjones.net/about', function(data){
// do something with data
});
with JSON from elsewhere-mapper module
var parser = require("elsewhere-profiles");
parser.parseElsewhereJson({ data object... }, function(data){
// do something with data
});
var parser = require("elsewhere-profiles");
var options = {'cacheTimeLimit': 360000}
parser.parseUrls('http://glennjones.net/about', options, function(data){
// do something with data
});
Elsewhere use an in memory cache for the html it has fetched from web pages during its operation. The options object contains a property called cacheTimeLimit which can be use to set the refresh gap, by default it is set 360000ms equal to 1 hour.
You can also replace the cache with your own functionally if you provide an object contain the following interface:
{ function get (url) { returns data }
function has(url) {
returns true || false
}
function fetch (url, callback) {
fires callback(null, data);
}
function set(url, data) {
returns object
}
}
Add the object to the options.cache property
This will return JSON. This is an example where three urls where given: http://www.flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/, http://www.linkedin.com/in/glennjones, http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/62673/
{
"profiles": [{
"profile": {
"type": ["h-card"],
"properties":{
"adr": [{
"locality": "Brighton",
"country-name": "United Kingdom"
}],
"note": ["Glenn Jones is a director and a founder of Madgex. Equally as passionate about interaction design and coding, he is currently addicted to exploring ideas of the semantic web and data portability."],
"url": ["http://www.glennjones.net"]
}
},
"identity": {
"name": "Flickr",
"domain": "flickr.com",
"matchedUrl": "http://www.flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/",
"userName": "glennjonesnet",
"sgn": "sgn://flickr.com/?ident=glennjonesnet",
"endPoints": [{
"schema": "hCard",
"contentType": "Profile",
"mediaType": "Html",
"url": "http://flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/"
}, {
"schema": "None",
"contentType": "Images",
"mediaType": "Html",
"url": "http://flickr.com/photos/glennjonesnet/"
}],
"frequency": 0,
"icon16": "http://l.yimg.com/g/favicon.ico"
}
}, {
"profile": {
"type": ["h-card"],
"properties":{
"adr": [{
"locality": "Brighton, United Kingdom"
}],
"fn": "Glenn Jones",
"n": {
"given-name": ["Glenn"],
"family-name": ["Jones"]
},
"photo": ["http://m3.licdn.com/mpr/pub/image-gHqDu1tz7mTBl71NNV7WML3hcO_1GoUWgH-d6cqcc_u1-ekTgHqd9Kozc4DJGoTXS4Iw/glenn-jones.jpg"],
"title": ["Creative Director at Madgex and Owner, Madgex"],
"note": "Madgex"
}
},
"identity": {
"name": "Linked-in",
"domain": "linkedin.com",
"matchedUrl": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/glennjones",
"userName": "glennjones",
"sgn": "sgn://linkedin.com/?ident=glennjones",
"endPoints": [{
"schema": "hCard",
"contentType": "Profile",
"mediaType": "Html",
"url": "http://linkedin.com/in/glennjones"
}, {
"schema": "hResume",
"contentType": "Resume",
"mediaType": "Html",
"url": "http://linkedin.com/in/glennjones"
}],
"frequency": 5,
"icon16": "http://s3.licdn.com/scds/common/u/img/favicon_v3.ico"
}
}],
"combinedProfile": {
"type": ["h-card"],
"properties":{
"adr": [{
"locality": "Brighton",
"country-name": "United Kingdom"
}],
"url": ["http://www.glennjones.net"],
"note": ["Glenn Jones is a Director and founder of Madgex. Equally as passionate about interaction design and coding, he is currently addicted to exploring ideas of the semantic web and data portability. <br />"],
"fn": "Glenn Jones",
"nickname": ["glennjones"],
"n": {
"given-name": ["Glenn"],
"family-name": ["Jones"]
},
"photo": ["http://m3.licdn.com/mpr/pub/image-gHqDu1tz7mTBl71NNV7WML3hcO_1GoUWgH-d6cqcc_u1-ekTgHqd9Kozc4DJGoTXS4Iw/glenn-jones.jpg"],
"title": ["Creative Director at Madgex and Owner, Madgex"]
],
"username": "glennjones",
"highestFrequencySite": "http://glennjones.net/",
"accounts": [ {
"name": "Flickr",
"domain": "flickr.com",
"profileUrl": "http://flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/",
"userName": "glennjonesnet",
"sgn": "sgn://flickr.com/?ident=glennjonesnet",
"icon16": "http://l.yimg.com/g/favicon.ico",
"frequency": 0
}, {
"name": "Linked-in",
"domain": "linkedin.com",
"profileUrl": "http://linkedin.com/in/glennjones",
"userName": "glennjones",
"sgn": "sgn://linkedin.com/?ident=glennjones",
"icon16": "http://s3.licdn.com/scds/common/u/img/favicon_v3.ico",
"frequency": 5
},]
}
},
"noProfilesFound": [ {
"name": "Upcoming",
"domain": "upcoming.yahoo.com",
"matchedUrl": "http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/62673/",
"userId": "62673",
"sgn": "sgn://upcoming.yahoo.com/?pk=62673",
"endPoints": [{
"schema": "hCard",
"contentType": "Profile",
"mediaType": "Html",
"url": "http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/62673/"
}],
"frequency": 3,
"icon16": "http://upcoming.yahoo.com/favicon.ico"
}]
}
Once you've cloned the project and run npm install, run the server $ node bin/elsewhere-profiles and then point your browser at localhost:8882 to try it out.
The server API will takes a comma delimited list of URLs. Alternatively you can also pass it a JSON string from the output of the elsewhere-mapper node.js module. Finally it supports a callback querystring item for use with any of the other three data types.
GET http://localhost:8882/?urls=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fglennjones&callback=myFunction
Please use github to ask me to pull your additions or corrections.
Having trouble with elsewhere-profiles? Please raise an issue at: https://github.com/glennjones/elsewhere-profiles/issues
The project is open sourced under MIT licenses. See the license.txt file within the project source.