elsewhere-profiles

The elsewhere-profiles is a Social media profile aggregator, it is part of a collection of node.js modules that enable the discovery of profiles and identities an indivdaul creates across the web.

Install

npm install elsewhere-profiles

or

git clone http://github.com/glennjones/elsewhere-profiles.git
cd elsewhere-profiles
npm link

Use

with list of URLs

var parser = require("elsewhere-profiles");

parser.parseUrls('http://glennjones.net/about', function(data){
    // do something with data
});

with JSON from elsewhere-mapper module

var parser = require("elsewhere-profiles");

parser.parseElsewhereJson({ data object... },  function(data){
    // do something with data
});

Options and internal cache

var parser = require("elsewhere-profiles");
var options = {'cacheTimeLimit': 360000}

parser.parseUrls('http://glennjones.net/about', options, function(data){
    // do something with data
});

Elsewhere use an in memory cache for the html it has fetched from web pages during its operation. The options object contains a property called cacheTimeLimit which can be use to set the refresh gap, by default it is set 360000ms equal to 1 hour.

You can also replace the cache with your own functionally if you provide an object contain the following interface:

{ function get (url) { returns data }

function has(url) {
  returns true || false
}

function fetch (url, callback) {
  fires callback(null, data);
}

function set(url, data) {
  returns object
}

}

Add the object to the options.cache property

Response

This will return JSON. This is an example where three urls where given: http://www.flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/, http://www.linkedin.com/in/glennjones, http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/62673/

{ 
    "profiles": [{
        "profile": {
            "adr": [{
                "locality": "Brighton",
                "country-name": "United Kingdom"
            }],
            "note": ["Glenn Jones is a director and a founder of Madgex. Equally as passionate about interaction design and coding, he is currently addicted to exploring ideas of the semantic web and data portability."],
            "url": ["http://www.glennjones.net"]
        },
        "identity": {
            "name": "Flickr",
            "domain": "flickr.com",
            "matchedUrl": "http://www.flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/",
            "userName": "glennjonesnet",
            "sgn": "sgn://flickr.com/?ident=glennjonesnet",
            "endPoints": [{
                "schema": "hCard",
                "contentType": "Profile",
                "mediaType": "Html",
                "url": "http://flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/"
            }, {
                "schema": "None",
                "contentType": "Images",
                "mediaType": "Html",
                "url": "http://flickr.com/photos/glennjonesnet/"
            }],
            "frequency": 0,
            "icon16": "http://l.yimg.com/g/favicon.ico"
        }
    }, {
        "profile": {
            "adr": [{
                "locality": "Brighton, United Kingdom"
            }],
            "fn": "Glenn Jones",
            "n": {
                "given-name": ["Glenn"],
                "family-name": ["Jones"]
            },
            "photo": ["http://m3.licdn.com/mpr/pub/image-gHqDu1tz7mTBl71NNV7WML3hcO_1GoUWgH-d6cqcc_u1-ekTgHqd9Kozc4DJGoTXS4Iw/glenn-jones.jpg"],
            "title": ["Creative Director at Madgex and Owner, Madgex"],
            "note": "Madgex"
        },
        "identity": {
            "name": "Linked-in",
            "domain": "linkedin.com",
            "matchedUrl": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/glennjones",
            "userName": "glennjones",
            "sgn": "sgn://linkedin.com/?ident=glennjones",
            "endPoints": [{
                "schema": "hCard",
                "contentType": "Profile",
                "mediaType": "Html",
                "url": "http://linkedin.com/in/glennjones"
            }, {
                "schema": "hResume",
                "contentType": "Resume",
                "mediaType": "Html",
                "url": "http://linkedin.com/in/glennjones"
            }],
            "frequency": 5,
            "icon16": "http://s3.licdn.com/scds/common/u/img/favicon_v3.ico"
        }
    }],
    "combinedProfile": {
        "adr": [{
            "locality": "Brighton",
            "country-name": "United Kingdom"
        }],
        "url": ["http://www.glennjones.net"],
        "note": ["Glenn Jones is a Director and founder of Madgex. Equally as passionate about interaction design and coding, he is currently addicted to exploring ideas of the semantic web and data portability. <br />"],
        "fn": "Glenn Jones",
        "nickname": ["glennjones"],
        "n": {
            "given-name": ["Glenn"],
            "family-name": ["Jones"]
        },
        "photo": ["http://m3.licdn.com/mpr/pub/image-gHqDu1tz7mTBl71NNV7WML3hcO_1GoUWgH-d6cqcc_u1-ekTgHqd9Kozc4DJGoTXS4Iw/glenn-jones.jpg"],
        "title": ["Creative Director at Madgex and Owner, Madgex"]
        ],
        "username": "glennjones",
        "highestFrequencySite": "http://glennjones.net/",
        "accounts": [ {
            "name": "Flickr",
            "domain": "flickr.com",
            "profileUrl": "http://flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/",
            "userName": "glennjonesnet",
            "sgn": "sgn://flickr.com/?ident=glennjonesnet",
            "icon16": "http://l.yimg.com/g/favicon.ico",
            "frequency": 0
        }, {
            "name": "Linked-in",
            "domain": "linkedin.com",
            "profileUrl": "http://linkedin.com/in/glennjones",
            "userName": "glennjones",
            "sgn": "sgn://linkedin.com/?ident=glennjones",
            "icon16": "http://s3.licdn.com/scds/common/u/img/favicon_v3.ico",
            "frequency": 5
        },]
    },
    "noProfilesFound": [ {
        "name": "Upcoming",
        "domain": "upcoming.yahoo.com",
        "matchedUrl": "http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/62673/",
        "userId": "62673",
        "sgn": "sgn://upcoming.yahoo.com/?pk=62673",
        "endPoints": [{
            "schema": "hCard",
            "contentType": "Profile",
            "mediaType": "Html",
            "url": "http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/62673/"
        }],
        "frequency": 3,
        "icon16": "http://upcoming.yahoo.com/favicon.ico"
    }]
}

Using the server API

Once you've cloned the project and run npm install, run the server $ node bin/elsewhere-profiles and then point your browser at localhost:8882 to try it out.

The server API will takes a comma delimited list of URLs. Alternatively you can also pass it a JSON string from the output of the elsewhere-mapper node.js module. Finally it supports a callback querystring item for use with any of the other three data types.

GET http://localhost:8882/?urls=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fglennjones&callback=myFunction

Contributing to the project

Please use github to ask me to pull your additions or corrections.

Support or Contact

Having trouble with elsewhere-profiles? Please raise an issue at: https://github.com/glennjones/elsewhere-profiles/issues

License

The project is open sourced under MIT licenses. See the license.txt file within the project source.