IDs, please

Get social network IDs or screen names from links to social network accounts.

Sometimes you need to get a social network account name from a link — to store a screen name in your database instead of parsing the link every time, or maybe to work with these accounts using social network APIs (as I do). Would be easier to have a library that extracts this kind of information from all known social networks for your pleasure.

Sponsored by Evil Martians.

Installation

gem install ids_please

Or, put this in your Gemfile:

gem 'ids_please'

Usage

This is how you get social IDs from from links:

ids = IdsPlease.new('https://twitter.com/gazay', 'http://facebook.com/alexey.gaziev')
ids.parse
puts ids.parsed[:twitter]  # => ["gazay"]
puts ids.parsed[:facebook] # => ["alexey.gaziev"]

puts ids.original           # => ["https://twitter.com/gazay", "http://facebook.com/alexey.gaziev"]

Or you can just check that the link is for a known social network:

ids = IdsPlease.new('https://twitter.com/gazay', 'http://some-unknown-network.com/gazay')
ids.recognize
puts ids.recognized   # => {:twitter=>[#<URI::HTTP:0x007fea3bba7e30 URL:http://twitter.com/gazay>]}
puts ids.unrecognized # => ["http://some-unknown-network.com/gazay"]

Social networks supported at the moment:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Soundcloud
• GooglePlus
• Youtube
• Tumblr
• Vimeo
• Vkontakte
• Odnoklassniki

Contributors

• @gazay

Special thanks to @ai, @yaroslav, @whitequark

Notes

Gem named under an impression of an awesome game called Papers, please

License

The MIT License