Pluck is an Objective-C library for grabbing content from OEmbed (and similar) supporting sites. This library isn't concerned with a particular standard, but whatever works including OEmbed, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, or if a service supports their own format. It will fetch the data and return a standardized representation.
Pluck is in early stages of development and the API may change until 1.0. This is currently geared toward the use case of display images from a service in a client app (i.e. Flint), but can be extended.
Pluck is available via CocoaPods, but you can also install it directly. Pluck requires ARC and AFNetworking.
[PluckService itemForURL:url completion:block]
This is the primary method. It will figure out which service supports the URL, fetch it and return a PLKItem. You can also call the same method on any service directly. Check the demo project and tests for more examples
There is a PluckDemo project that has a demo Mac app for entering a URL and returning the data and image. The Xcode project also contains the tests.
Pluck currently supports:
- CloudApp
- YouTube
- Vimeo
- Flickr
- Dribbble
- Droplr
- Rdio
Support is planned for:
- ADN
- Vine
Pluck services are based on the PLKService class. To add another service, subclass PLKService and add support for these three class methods:
+ (BOOL)isSupportedURL:(NSURL *)url+ (void)itemForURL:(NSURL *)url completion:(void (^)(PLKItem *item, NSError *error))block+ (PLKItem *)parseItemFromDictionary:(NSDictionary *)dictionary
Check the existing services for examples.
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Copyright (c) 2012 Zach Waugh
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