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MIT 70 6 2,090
4.9 thousand (month) Oct 26 2013 v4.4.12(3 months ago)
769 2 24 BSD-2-Clause
Mar 02 2013 121 (month) 3.5.4(3 years ago)

PHP library to get information from any web page (using oembed, opengraph, twitter-cards, scrapping the html, etc). It's compatible with any web service (youtube, vimeo, flickr, instagram, etc) and has adapters to some sites like (archive.org, github, facebook, etc).

Essence is a simple PHP library to extract media information from websites, like youtube videos, twitter statuses or blog articles.

Example Use


use Embed\Embed;

$embed = new Embed();

//Load any url:
$info = $embed->get('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP1xn5wHtxE');

//Get content info

$info->title; //The page title
$info->description; //The page description
$info->url; //The canonical url
$info->keywords; //The page keywords

$info->image; //The thumbnail or main image

$info->code->html; //The code to embed the image, video, etc
$info->code->width; //The exact width of the embed code (if exists)
$info->code->height; //The exact height of the embed code (if exists)
$info->code->ratio; //The aspect ratio (width/height)

$info->authorName; //The resource author
$info->authorUrl; //The author url

$info->cms; //The cms used
$info->language; //The language of the page
$info->languages; //The alternative languages

$info->providerName; //The provider name of the page (Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, etc)
$info->providerUrl; //The provider url
$info->icon; //The big icon of the site
$info->favicon; //The favicon of the site (an .ico file or a png with up to 32x32px)

$info->publishedTime; //The published time of the resource
$info->license; //The license url of the resource
$info->feeds; //The RSS/Atom feeds
<?php
$Essence = new Essence\Essence();
$Media = $Essence->extract('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39e3KYAmXK4');

var_dump($Media);
// will result in array of values:
// type
// version
// url
// title
// description
// authorName
// authorUrl
// providerName
// providerUrl
// cacheAge
// thumbnailUrl
// thumbnailWidth
// thumbnailHeight
// html
// width
// height

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