.. Vidscraper documentation master file, created by sphinx-quickstart on Thu Sep 15 21:08:41 2011. You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least contain the root `toctree` directive. .. Copyright 2009 - Participatory Culture Foundation This file is part of vidscraper. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS`` AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. Welcome to Vidscraper's documentation! ====================================== Vidscraper is a clean, simple library for a couple of rather messy issues: - Retrieving the source video from a "flash-only" website - Finding out contextual data about a pasted url: title/description/etc Vidscraper provides a unified api for an issue that requires a lot of one-off scraping. Requirements ++++++++++++ * json (python2.6) or simplejson * BeautifulSoup 3.0.8 or 3.2 * feedparser Optional -------- * oauth2 (for some APIs *\*cough\* Vimeo searching \*cough\** which require authentication) * nose (for tests) Contents ++++++++ .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 topics/getting-started exceptions api/suites api/scrapedvideo Indices and tables ================== * :ref:`genindex` * :ref:`modindex` * :ref:`search`