OhEmbedr is the easiest way to avail of OEmbed services in ruby.
To install you must add the gemcutter source to your gem sources, as follows:
gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org
After you've done that just install the gem:
gem install ohembedr
Using OhEmbed is super easy below is an example for getting OEmbed data for a vimeo video.
begin
o = OhEmbedr::OhEmbedr.new(:url => "http://vimeo.com/6382511", :maxwidth => 600)
embed_data = o.gets
rescue OhEmbedr::UnsupportedError => error
# URL not supported
end
embed_data now contains an hash with all the data about embedding the specified url. By wrapping our OhEmbed call with a begin rescue block we can pass any url to OhEmbed and take that the url isn't supported if UnsupportedError is raised. OhEmbed currently supports the following OEmbed providers:
- YouTube
- Vimeo
- Flickr
- Qik
- Revision 3
- Viddler
- Hulu
- Mobypicture
If you would like a provider to be added just open a GitHub ticket.