Fletcher is a cross-website product information fetcher. Just give fletcher a product's url and you'll get back a nice, uniform object that's easy to work with.
- No third-party API access required (good for websites that don't even have API access)
- Uses nokogiri for data parsing
gem install fletcherrequire "fletcher"
product = Fletcher.fetch "http://www.amazon.com/Avenir-Deluxe-Unicycle-20-Inch-Wheel/dp/B00165Q9F8"
product.name # => "Avenir Deluxe Unicycle (20-Inch Wheel)"
product.description # => "A wonderful unicycle"
product.images.count # => 1
product.image # => {:src => "http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41b3TNb3uCL._SL500_AA300_.jpg", :alt => "Picture of Unicycle"}
product.image.src # => "http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41b3TNb3uCL._SL500_AA300_.jpg"
product.price # => #<Money cents:500 currency:USD>
product.price.to_f # => 5.0
product.price.format # => "$5.00"
product.price.currency.symbol # => "$"
# Get Raw Nokogiri Document
product.doc.class.name # => Nokogiri::HTML::Document
# Get list of supported websites/services
Fletcher.models # => [:amazon, :ebay, :etsy, :thinkgeek, ...]Get Product Details (defaults to yaml output):
$ fletcher fetch "http://www.amazon.com/Avenir-Deluxe-Unicycle-20-Inch-Wheel/dp/B00165Q9F8"
---
name: Avenir Deluxe Unicycle (20-Inch Wheel)
description: 'Amazon.com: Avenir Deluxe Unicycle (20-Inch Wheel): Sports & Outdoors'
price: $99.99
image:
src: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41b3TNb3uCL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
url: http://www.amazon.com/Avenir-Deluxe-Unicycle-20-Inch-Wheel/dp/B00165Q9F8Get a single attribute of a product:
$ fletcher fetch --only name "http://www.amazon.com/Avenir-Deluxe-Unicycle-20-Inch-Wheel/dp/B00165Q9F8"
Avenir Deluxe Unicycle (20-Inch Wheel)Get list of supported websites:
$ fletcher websites
Amazon
ThinkGeek
...The following attributes/method are available for a product:
name- (String) The name of the productdescription- (String) The product's descriptionprice- (Money) A Money object representing the product's price. This makes converting exchange rates and math functionality easy to use.image- (Hash) The main image of the product, if available. This is a hash containing standard HTML attributes:src,alt,width,height, etc.images- (Array) An array of product images.doc- The rawNokogiri::HTML::Documentobject for the product. You can use this to pull other stuff from the product's page.