Class: FacebookWall::FeedEntryFilters::LinkRewriter

Inherits:
FeedEntryFilter show all
Defined in:
lib/facebook_wall/feed_entry_filters/link_rewriter.rb

Overview

Completely rewrites HTML links in items, removing superfluous attributes added by Facebook. For example,

<a href="http://example.com" target="_blank" onmousedown="doSomething()" rel="nofollow" id="link">example.com</a>

would be replaced with: 

<a href="http://example.com">example.com</a>

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#apply!(feed_entry) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/facebook_wall/feed_entry_filters/link_rewriter.rb', line 8

def apply!(feed_entry)
  feed_entry.description.scan(/<a\s+[^>]+>/).each do |link_tag|
    href_matches = link_tag.match(/\s+(href="[^"]*")/)
    feed_entry.description.gsub! link_tag, "<a #{href_matches[1]}>" if href_matches
  end
end