Yes. I forgot. Assuming you are running web2py from source you need to...
easy_install beautifulsoup On Sunday, 3 February 2013 18:54:25 UTC-6, sasogeek wrote: > > <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'> Missing BeautifulSoup > On Monday, 4 February 2013 00:02:17 UTC, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> {{extend 'layout.html'}} >> >> {{html = """ >> Did you watch this video?<br/> >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q >> """}} >> >> {{form gluon.contrib.autolinks import expand_html}} >> {{=XML(expand_html(your_html),cache.ram('mycachekey',lambda:dict(),3600)}} >> >> >> >> On Sunday, 3 February 2013 17:40:59 UTC-6, sasogeek wrote: >>> >>> Can i have an example of the full code... like replace your_html with an >>> example code >>> >>> On Sunday, 3 February 2013 03:16:30 UTC, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >>>> >>>> {{form gluon.contrib.autolinks import expand_html}} >>>> >>>> {{=XML(expand_html(your_html),cache.ram('mycachekey',lambda:dict(),3600)}} >>>> >>>> will do what you ask. Will expand all links not already tagged using >>>> the oembed protocol. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Saturday, 2 February 2013 18:33:42 UTC-6, sasogeek wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Not sure if I understand your question but I guess I'll say html cos >>>>> that's what I'm familiar with... :| >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, 2 February 2013 20:44:25 UTC, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> It depends. In which format is the input? markmin, html? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Friday, 1 February 2013 22:15:13 UTC-6, sasogeek wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I want to do something similar to how facebook reatcs to links... >>>>>>> let's say a user makes a post with a link in it (the post is not >>>>>>> necessarily just the link) >>>>>>> i want to be able to grab the link from the post, make it clickable, >>>>>>> as well as a little excerpt from the contents in the page that link is >>>>>>> anchored to. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> eg. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> blabla bla blablalbal bla blalba blalba crap! this is a link >>>>>>> http://domain.com/somepage.html is a cool blog page. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> when a user posts the above example, i want to make >>>>>>> http://domain.com/somepage.html into an actual link which is >>>>>>> clickable, as well as show some sort of excerpt from the contents in >>>>>>> that >>>>>>> page... i used fb as an example so it's easy to understand what i want >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> accomplish :) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> help? >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.