jkl

jkl (Jakal) does these things:

  • Connects to URLs.
  • Gets stuff out of RSS feeds.
  • Gets the main content from web pages
  • Gets a set of metadata from a web page (using the calais gem)

Sample usage

For example - if you had a RSS feed:

require "jkl"

    feed = "http://www.topix.net/rss/search/article?x=0&y=0&q=London"

You could collect some metadata from the links in that feed, thus:

    tags = []
    Jkl::links(feed).each do |link|
        tags << Jkl::tags("my_calais_key",link)
    end

A metadata sample might look something like this:

    {
            "Person"=>["Barack Obama", "Hillary Clinton"], 
            "Position"=>["Secretary of State"]
    }

It is hosted at gemcutter

    gem install jakal

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 sshingler

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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