VideoInfo

Simple Ruby Gem to get video info from Dailymotion, VK, Vimeo (with playlist), Wistia and YouTube (with playlist).

Tested against Ruby 1.9.3, 2.0.0, 2.1.0 and the latest versions of JRuby & Rubinius.

Install

gem install video_info

Usage

video = VideoInfo.new('http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7lni3')
# video.available?       => true
# video.video_id         => 'x7lni3'
# video.provider         => 'Dailymotion'
# video.title            => 'Mario Kart (Rémi Gaillard)'
# video.description      => 'Super Rémi Kart est un jeu vidéo de course développé et édité par N'Importe Quoi TV.'
# video.duration         => 136 (in seconds)
# video.date             => Mon Mar 03 16:29:31 UTC 2008
# video.thumbnail_small  => 'http://s2.dmcdn.net/BgWxI/x60-kbf.jpg'
# video.thumbnail_medium => 'http://s2.dmcdn.net/BgWxI/x240-b83.jpg'
# video.thumbnail_large  => 'http://s2.dmcdn.net/BgWxI/x720-YcV.jpg'
# video.embed_url        => 'http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x7lni3'
# video.embed_code       => "<iframe src='//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x7lni3' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen'></iframe>"

video = VideoInfo.new("http://vimeo.com/898029")
# video.available?       => true
# 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='//player.vimeo.com/video/898029?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;autoplay=0' frameborder='0'></iframe>"

video = VideoInfo.new("http://fast.wistia.com/embed/medias/pxonqr42is")
# video.available?       => true
# video.provider         => 'Wistia'
# video.video_id         => 'pxonqr42is'
# video.title            => 'Understanding Analytics'
# video.duration         => 250 (in seconds)
# video.width            => 960
# video.height           => 568
# video.thumbnail_small  => 'https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/0fccbdc60ade35723f79f1c002bc61b135b610fa.jpg?image_crop_resized=960x540'
# video.thumbnail_medium => 'https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/0fccbdc60ade35723f79f1c002bc61b135b610fa.jpg?image_crop_resized=960x540'
# video.thumbnail_large  => 'https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/0fccbdc60ade35723f79f1c002bc61b135b610fa.jpg?image_crop_resized=960x540'
# video.embed_url        => '//fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/pxonqr42is'
# video.embed_code       => "<iframe src='//fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/pxonqr42is' frameborder='0'></iframe>"

video = VideoInfo.new("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4")
# video.available?       => true
# 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='//www.youtube.com/embed/mZqGqE0D0n4' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen'></iframe>"

playlist = VideoInfo.new("http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL9hW1uS6HUftLdHI6RIsaf-iXTm09qnEr")
# playlist.available?          => true
# playlist.playlist_id         => 'PL9hW1uS6HUftLdHI6RIsaf'
# playlist.provider            => 'YouTube'
# playlist.title               => 'YouTube Policy and Copyright'
# playlist.thumbnail_small     => 'http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8b0aEoxqqC0/default.jpg'
# playlist.thumbnail_medium    => 'http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8b0aEoxqqC0/mqdefault.jpg'
# playlist.thumbnail_large     => 'http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8b0aEoxqqC0/hqdefault.jpg'
# playlist.embed_url           => 'http://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL9hW1uS6HUftLdHI6RIsaf-iXTm09qnEr'
# playlist.embed_code          => "<iframe src='//www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL9hW1uS6HUftLdHI6RIsaf-iXTm09qnEr' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen'></iframe>"
# playlist.videos              => [VideoInfo.new('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bt3-WsHfB0'), VideoInfo.new('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g2U12SsRns'), VideoInfo.new('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b0aEoxqqC0'), VideoInfo.new('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c3mHikRz0I'), VideoInfo.new('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQVHWsTHcoc')]

playlist = VideoInfo.new("http://vimeo.com/album/2755718")
# playlist.available?          => true
# playlist.playlist_id         => '2755718'
# playlist.provider            => 'Vimeo'
# playlist.title               => 'The Century Of Self'
# playlist.thumbnail_small     => 'http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/443/595/443595474_100.jpg'
# playlist.thumbnail_medium    => 'http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/443/595/443595474_200.jpg'
# playlist.thumbnail_large     => 'http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/443/595/443595474_640.jpg'
# playlist.embed_url           => 'player.vimeo.com/hubnut/album/2755718'
# playlist.embed_code          => "<iframe src='//player.vimeo.com/hubnut/album/2755718?autoplay=0&byline=0&portrait=0&title=0' frameborder='0'></iframe>"
# playlist.videos              => [VideoInfo.new('http://vimeo.com/67977038'), VideoInfo.new('http://vimeo.com/68843810'), VideoInfo.new('http://vimeo.com/69949597'), VideoInfo.new('http://vimeo.com/70388245')]

Options

video = VideoInfo.new('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4', 'User-Agent' => 'My YouTube Mashup Robot/1.0')
video = VideoInfo.new('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4', 'Referer'    => 'http://my-youtube-mashup.com/')
video = VideoInfo.new('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.new('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.new('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4').embed_code(iframe_attributes: { width: 800, height: 600, 'data-key' => 'value' })
=> '<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mZqGqE0D0n4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" width="800" height="600" data-key="value"></iframe>'

'VideoInfo.new('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqGqE0D0n4').embed_code(url_attributes: { autoplay: 1 })
=> '<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mZqGqE0D0n4?autoplay=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>'

If you would like to disable certain providers, you can do so by modifying the class variable disable_providers:

VideoInfo.disable_providers = %w[YouTube] # disable YouTube
VideoInfo.disable_providers = %w[Vimeo YouTube] # disable Vimeo and Youtube
VideoInfo.disable_providers = [] # enable all providers

Note: disable_providers is case-insensitive. Attempting to use a disabled provider will raise a UrlError, just like attempting to use a non-video URL.

Author

Thibaud Guillaume-Gentil (@thibaudgg)

Contributors