On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Philip Hallstrom <phi...@pjkh.com> wrote:
> > Non-technical founder doing some research to try and help point my > > developer in the right direction. > > > > Seeking resources or guidance to help generate an image preview from a > > link, similar to the one used in Facebook's UI, and then subsequently > > also allow a user to display / grab the full size image of the preview > > as well. Not looking to necessarily create a bookmarklet a la > > svpply.com or the like, but interested in figuring out a way whereby a > > user can enter a link, select the image they want on the page they've > > linked to, and then have that image added to a post or submission to a > > web page. > > > you can do this using a simple ajax process. submit the link via ajax then in the controller, get the html page through the HTTP::Net library or use a gem like httparty. Parse the page with nokogiri and save all the images in an array. Use the array to show the user the images found on that link. > > Any help, guidance, or anything would be greatly appreciated!! > > > http://www.pageglimpse.com/ > > Maybe... I did a project using alexa thumbnail service, but looks like that > got shut down. One article pointed to the above as a replacement. I've > never used it though... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
