Facebook Video URL Converter

Install

gem install fb_video_url_converter

and in your Gemfile:

gem 'fb_video_url_converter'

About

Facebook Video URL Converter is intended as an easy alternative to changing video hosting from Facebook to a different one.

When you upload a movie to a Facebook profile, it is available through a URL. However, if You want to insert your movie into external player (like JW Player), you will have a problem. Facebook recently found out, that lots of websites use them as a free HD video hosting. Each 24h they switch authorization parameters, so you cannot embed links directly.

You need to refresh URLs with Facebook. That is why I've developed this small piece of code. It gets MP4 file URL and cache it for 30 minutes. When cache expires it checks URL header response and if it fails it refresh cache.

Works for approximately 99% of time.

Works with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.8.7 EE, 1.9.2

Requirements

Facebook Video URL Converter uses ActiveRecord to store cached data.

Example

url = 'http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/video/video.php?v=SOME_ID'
p FacebookVideo.get(url).url

=> 'http://video.ak.fbcdn.net/cfs-ak-ash4/214...long_long_url'

p FacebookVideo.get(url).name

=> 'video_name'

you can use also working? to determine if object you have got is a valid Facebook movie object. If not - use object.error to determine what type of error has occurred.

Setup

rails generate fb_video_url_converter:install

After that, you need to setup your Facebook account. To do so, find facebook_video_converter initializer and set it up according to your needs. Thats all

Tests

If you want to run rspec tests - you will need to modify:

FacebookBot.email = '[email protected]'
FacebookBot.password = 'pass'
# Cache storage - in seconds
FacebookVideo.cache = 60*10

and set them according to your own profile.

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with Rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.