onebox

onebox with node

Onebox is a library for turning media URLs into simple HTML previews of the resource.

Installation

npm install onebox --save

Usage

var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var mustache = require('mustache');
var onebox = require('onebox');

var preview = onebox({
  render: function(engine, data, cb) {
    var tpath = path.join(__dirname, 'templates', engine+'.mustache');
    fs.readFile(tpath, function(err, buf) {
      if(err) return cb(err);

      var template = buf.toString();
      var html = mustache.render(template, data);
      cb(null, html);
    });
  }
});

var link = 'http://github.com/wangzuo/onebox/issues/1';
preview(link, function(err, html) {
  if(err) throw err;
  console.log(html);
});

Development preview server

npm start

Link support

• [ ] amazon
• [x] audio
• [x] douban
• [ ] github_blob
• [ ] github_commit
• [x] githubgist
• [x] githubissue
• [x] githubpullrequest
• [ ] google_calendar
• [x] googledocs (spreadsheets|document|forms|presentation)
• [ ] google_maps
• [x] googleplayapp
• [x] image
• [ ] pubmed
• [x] soundcloud
• [x] stackexchange (stackoverflow)
• [x] oembed
• [ ] twitterstatus
• [x] video
• [ ] whitelisted_generic
• [ ] wikipedia
• [x] spotifytrack
• [x] spotifyalbum
• [ ] youku
• [x] youtube
• [x] music163playlist
• [x] music163album
• [x] music163song
• [ ] 404 error
• [ ] timeout error
• [x] open graph protocol
• [ ] normalize link
• [ ] time format
• [ ] string format
• [ ] render as media object