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